&quot;it runs counter to the goals of a stable and healthy society to allow landlords to force people out of their homes arbitrarily&quot;<p>I don&#x27;t think you&#x27;ll get anyone many people that disagree with the premise of stability. The devil is in the details of implementation.<p>Rent control causes as many problems (or more) than it solves. You get much larger price swings in the rental market, for example, because the effective market size is highly constrained.<p>No system is perfect, obviously.