I'm not convinced that rent control is really a factor in either direction. Los Angeles and San Francisco have had rent control for a very long time, and they h

I'm not convinced that rent control is really a factor in either direction. Los Angeles and San Francisco have had rent control for a very long time, and they have sky-high homeless popuations. Oregon banned rent control in the state constitution, and Portland has a huge homeless population. The common thread in all these cities is a war on developers, and it certainly looks like a large homeless population is what you get for winning that war.