> All of these places suffering from severe housing shortages have some government policy which can clearly be linked to it.
All these ill people have doctors around them, which also can clearly be linked. That in itself doesn't seem to be an argument.
(Note I'm not taking positions here, I don't know enough about the topic)
Sweden had a functioning rent control system for many decades until relatively recent changes. Please feel free to elaborate how you can clearly link the current situation to rent control and not those changes.
There's an obvious solution here, it's just not one most people living in these areas wants to hear.