With your pithy reply you miss the critical fact that the german version of rent control isn't actually rent control. It just pegs how much rent for any given a

With your pithy reply you miss the critical fact that the german version of rent control isn't actually rent control. It just pegs how much rent for any given apartment can increase to how much the rent in that area has recently increased. In practice this means that all rents increase at the same rate as before the "control" was put in place.