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Vacancy decontrol = new construction can have whatever rent they want. So preventing a landlord from screwing over the current tenant does not prevent housing from meeting demand.

New construction does face many other issues, though. NIMBY's, parking regulations, zoning, etc.

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Rent control makes people become NIMBYs.

I concur. And it seems to me that the feedback mechanism is destroying SF.

I am in a rent controlled apartment. I have been in this apartment for 4.5 years.

I full-throatedly support new, dense residential construction sufficient to meet SF's current and future housing demands. This will continue to be my position for the forseeable future.

For those folks who are concerned about new construction destroying their rent-controlled units, Sangiacomo and his tenants worked out a really good plan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9209304

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