If you are willing to maintain laws that perpetuate artificial shortages and therefore high rents, and the decades long wait lists that this type of policy creates, and tens of thousands of lives, if not hundreds of thousands of lives that this will make worse in every city, all to prevent people who have been living at far below market rates, likely for decades, then I would say we have a different moral calculus.

I see robust public housing as only sustainable solution for people getting priced out of a neighborhood.

>As per your comment, I'd say zoning laws and NIMBY are bigger fruits hanging lower than rent stabilization.

Again, I support some form of stabilization, but my entire point is that the NIMBY policies are, in large part, caused by the policy of rent-control itself. I could go into how 'golden handcuffs' cause this, but I feel like I've talked your ear off too much already.

You obviously care a lot about this, I only wish I could communicate my complicated position better.