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Rent control keeps winning the argument it keeps losing
Every major empirical study finds that rent controls deepen the shortages they promise to relieve. Voters keep voting for them anyway — and the gap between expert consensus and ballot-box appetite is itself the story.
Desk note. This piece treats rent control as an empirical question with unusually clean evidence on one side and unusually durable political appeal on the other. The wire line tends to report each new referendum as if the policy's track record were unsettled; Monexus writes from the consensus of post-2019 rent-control literature, while flagging that the dynamic-supply question — not the static one — is still genuinely contested.
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