 Now, this is insane. There's no actual economic benefit to this. You can't just cap increases in rents nationwide without drastically reducing the supply. Rent control has failed literally everywhere it has ever been tried. There are entire swaths of New York that were burned during the 1970s because of rent control, because it turns out that when you can't increase rent to keep up with costs, people just abandon the upkeep on their apartments or burn them down for the insurance money.