Rent control is a mechanism to ensure that zoning can stay the same and construction is discouraged as much as possible.
>If rent control were eliminated tomorrow in San Francisco, it would continue to have a crippling housing shortage, because of those million factors.
Yes and as long as politicians don't get the dumb idea of reinstating rent control they would be forced to listen to all those angry voices instead of just giving them rent control to make them shut up. Rent control is a tool to reduce accountability. It's mostly abused to sweep problems under the rug.
>If rent control were eliminated tomorrow in San Francisco, it would continue to have a crippling housing shortage, because of those million factors.
Yes and as long as politicians don't get the dumb idea of reinstating rent control they would be forced to listen to all those angry voices instead of just giving them rent control to make them shut up. Rent control is a tool to reduce accountability. It's mostly abused to sweep problems under the rug.