Ah rent control I remember when I lived in San Francisco starting out and was paying more than half my take home pay in rent. Guy across the hall from me paid about 1/5 of what I paid and used the place to see his mistress. It was so great watching him pull up in his Benz with his girlfriend and use the place for a couple hours each week while eating my ramen noodles…
And try to get the landlord to fix anything was always fun, since he wanted people to move out so he could charge more to the next person.

Of course rent control was sold as a way to keep little old ladies off the street (sound familiar) but the result was a lot of misused housing, a black market in sublets, little upkeep of property and very low supply of rentals but as long as it was better for 51% of the population it was a great thing.