Cambridge is a great study in rent control. After rent control was thrown out in 1994, as you might imagine, prices in the city began to rise. The twist is tha

Cambridge is a great study in rent control. After rent control was thrown out in 1994, as you might imagine, prices in the city began to rise. The twist is that never-controlled units rose faster than controlled units! Since a tenant doesn't care if about the historical rent control status of unit, this strongly implies that never-controlled units were of higher quality.