Economists of all stripes agree rent control doesn’t work. A mere 2% think it has positive effects, according to a 2012 survey by the IGM Forum.
The analysis of rent control is among the best-understood issues in all of economics, and – among economists anyway – one of the least controversial. In 1992, a poll of the American Economic Association found 93 percent of its members agreeing that 'a ceiling on rents reduces the quality and quantity of housing.
Not if paired with a rent freeze. Obviously. But you knew that already. You’re just here to agitate for the bourgeoise.
NYC renters have suffered enough. Why would you subject them to failed policies like rent control?