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Rent control has been shown to be ineffective, and in fact to have the opposite effect instead of what it intends.

In fact most economists acknowledge this. Rent control is a dead concept peddled by leftists who literally don't know basic economics.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-01-18/yup-rent-control-does-more-harm-than-good

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/12/business/economy/rent-control-explained.html

And yet economists from both the right and the left are in almost universal agreement that rent control makes housing problems worse in the long run.
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