> [edit: note here that most of the US has banned rent control, and this is happening regardless]
Where do you get that idea? It is false. New York? San Francisco? California has statewide rent control as of January 1 of last year. Many of the places where people want to move still do have rent control. Rent control is not a live issue in, e.g., Tulsa, OK or Amarillo, TX, whether it is legal or not.
> “Neighborhoods are safer and more stable with a base of long-term residents in rent-controlled apartments.”
If you have good evidence for this claim, I would like to see it. Moreover: "safer" and "more stable" relative to what? I guess your claim would be "safer and more stable than the counterfactual w/out rent control and with more housing." If you have good empirical evidence for that claim, I would love to see it.
"As of 2019, five states (California, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Oregon) and the District of Columbia have localities in which some form of residential rent control is in effect (for normal structures, excluding mobile homes). Thirty-seven states either prohibit or preempt rent control, while eight states allow their cities to enact rent control, but have no cities that have implemented it."
Where do you get that idea? It is false. New York? San Francisco? California has statewide rent control as of January 1 of last year. Many of the places where people want to move still do have rent control. Rent control is not a live issue in, e.g., Tulsa, OK or Amarillo, TX, whether it is legal or not.
> “Neighborhoods are safer and more stable with a base of long-term residents in rent-controlled apartments.”
If you have good evidence for this claim, I would like to see it. Moreover: "safer" and "more stable" relative to what? I guess your claim would be "safer and more stable than the counterfactual w/out rent control and with more housing." If you have good empirical evidence for that claim, I would love to see it.