So you want to keep your own economic flexibility (rent without buying, leave at will), but you want city/state to forfeit their economic flexibility (subsidy your rent, don't kick you out)?
Can you see a problem here?
That’s a fase dichotomy. Home ownership is not automatic good — goo in some cases, not in others. Some hysteresis can be injeted into the propert markets.
I also see the value in pop 13 in california (for residences, not commercial) at the same time I see its problems.
Few solutions are effective (nor problems soluble) when cast in black and white.
On the the US’s historical economic strengths was the ease with which people could move in order to find work. One major influence in the US is economic slowdown of the past decade or so comes from peoples inability to move to find work