We've heard this argument a lot lately, that rent controls reduce the supply of available rental units, because developers don't want to invest in new rental housing if they can't get the right return on their investment.  

So, if there was no rent control, and investors, developers, and speculators could charge as much for rent as they wanted, they probably build so much new rental housing that the market would be flooded, and rents would stabilize and probably even come down due to the over-supply of rental units available.  

Is that what we're suppose to believe?  As a tenant, it sounds perfectly logical to me, yup ....