“Rent control” is like “Defund the police”: you can have the most reasoned, well-thought-out, evidence-based policy proposal, but as soon as it gets a label tha

“Rent control” is like “Defund the police”: you can have the most reasoned, well-thought-out, evidence-based policy proposal, but as soon as it gets a label that’s accurate enough that advocates can’t muster the mental energy to enter into a detailed technical discussion with every Internet comment poster that misunderstands what is proposed - but so-loaded with connotations and political innuendo that the ideological other-half of the country parrots the misrepresentations because thinking less of the opposition makes them feel good. So let’s agree to avoid the buzzword. What’s a more accurate - yet succinct - phrase to describe housing market controls that protect the least fortunate of us from being priced out of their homes and communities without disrupting the significant market forces which should - ideally - be promoting new housing construction? (Also, ban unsustainable zoning regs, enact an unimproved land value tax, and only allow greenbelts in areas with full mixed-use developments without building height restrictions)