Excellent article. My wife and I lived in Washington, DC before moving to Eugene. We watched many rent-controlled buildings become unsalvageable due to disrepair and deferred maintenance. Many were well-constructed historic buildings. The amount of value destroyed was difficult to watch, and the cost of the new construction that followed far outweighed the cost of the foregone maintenance. In the process, building communities were uprooted by inevitable gentrification in the city center. Hardly anyone's interests were aligned with the so-called rent control "solution."