Do you live in a district with rent control? If you do, are <i>not</i> very wealthy? (That is to say, are you unable to spend $2 million purchasing housing for yourself or your family?) Finally, are you a landlord?<p>If the answers to the first two questions are &quot;yes&quot;, and the last question is &quot;no&quot;, then I&#x27;m <i>actually</i> quite interested in hearing your thoughts on rent control. :)<p>I live in San Francisco [0], am <i>not</i> wealthy, and am trapped in my rent-controlled apartment by the skyrocketing rents of the non-rent-controlled (and reset-to-market-rate-after-vacancy) units around me. If it weren&#x27;t for rent control, <i>every</i> rental in the city would be renting for at <i>least</i> $3000 per bedroom per month, [1] and I would have been pushed out of the city more than a year ago.<p>[0] SF has a <i>serious</i> and inexplicable allergy to new housing construction. It is this refusal to build enough housing to meet even a fraction of housing demand that is the source of the obscene rents in the city.<p>[1] That&#x27;s <i>at least</i> $36,000 post-tax dollars a body must spend per bedroom per <i>year</i>. For reference, someone grossing $125k&#x2F;year has ~$76k in post-tax dollars at their disposal. This means that someone making low six figures would be spending somewhere around <i>half</i> of their take-home pay on rent.