Rent control results in rent that is artificially low. This results in hording of the market and an perceived shortage of housing. Paying what amounts to an extra few bucks a month in the form of a tax is not going to change anything. The affluent can afford to keep a number of rental properties while the target renters are squeezed out of the market. Government price control does not work, the starving still die while warehouses full of food rot away in India and the homeless sleep in the streets while whole apartment buildings sit empty in New York. Maybe in stead of beating the property owners with a stick, offer them a carrot...