Prosaically, the elderly have higher voting rates than the young so they win this fight. Philosophically, I don't like placing two sympathetic groups on opposi

Prosaically, the elderly have higher voting rates than the young so they win this fight. Philosophically, I don't like placing two sympathetic groups on opposite sides of a scale and weighing them, because that's usually a false choice and there is some external factors unaccounted for that make the choice less normative. In the case of rent control, this externality is clearly that it depresses new unit construction, exacerbating the problem. So I oppose rent control.