&gt; Am lucky to have rent control. Right now, if I move away, I wouldn&#x27;t be able to afford moving back.<p>SF-style widepsread rent control seems like part of the problem to me, in the sense that it hides the true extent of market distortions from many people living in the area (especially the demographics most likely to vote), while incentivizing weird and unethical behavior to circumvent it by developers who could probably be nudged into tenant-friendly density increases under more sane conditions.