&gt; Rent control. This is often unfair and inflates price of non-rent controlled apartments.<p>There&#x27;s the rub. Virtually all rent control schemes in North America only apply to a subset of properties (usually the shitty ones), which isn&#x27;t fair and often doesn&#x27;t work. Meanwhile, Germany has a long history of successful rent control, perhaps not coincidentally because it applies universally.