> Rent control is one of those policies that sounds great as long as you ignore second-order effects and pretend the population and economy never change. In practice it just creates a different system of haves and have-nots while removing any chance for the market to compensate.

Meh, rent control has almost no effect on a market where there is enough housing. Ownership of housing has the exact same consequences as rent control, and is even more likely to have crazy NIMBYs preventing anyone from building new housing (looking at you the bay area).