Keep in reading, including the comments such as the author's in https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control/#comment-13301 https://jwmason.org/

Keep in reading, including the comments such as the author's in https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control/#comment-13301 https://jwmason.org/slackwire/considerations-on-rent-control... : > I’m not entirely unsympathatic to your point of view. If we could do more to boost the supply of affordable housing, there would be less need for rent control, that is true. > But, first, less need is not no need. I don’t think it’s even physically possible to get a perfectly elastic housing supply at the local level, so when local demand rises some people are still going to face displacement from rising rents. And I think they deserve protection from that. Second, and more important, I am not at all sympathetic to the idea that we should remove protections that people very much need today, because they would need them less in a quite different world that we may reach someday. I'd say what you are talked about is exactly addressed. Sure, it would have been good to include in the article this audience, but that wasn't the audience of the original speech.