I guess I'm just approaching the policy issue from a practical perspective (the US isn't going to be able to craft anything close to a theoretically perfect pol

I guess I'm just approaching the policy issue from a practical perspective (the US isn't going to be able to craft anything close to a theoretically perfect policy, especially right now with our tribalism, NIMBYs and corporate lobbying) rather than a theoretical policy which is more pure. I'll admit that the assumptions I make about rent control assume that the policy is far from well crafted and probably assume that it gets worse over time because US policy makers tend to get worse at upkeeping existing systems the longer they last. These assumptions probably shouldn't be attributed to a perfect rent control policy.