May God damn the law under which rent can be controlled!
The rest of your post is irrelevant.
Right now there is a different reason for keeping it than there was before: We have over 60,000 homeless. That’s the other side of NYC that the tourists don’t see.
In fact, someone was telling me the other day that there are many more than that. Sixty thousand are the ones that are accounted for somehow, because they live in a Tier II or they sleep in a Tier I.
All you really need is a job and a membership in a gym, where you can shower and change. You ride the subways to get your sleep. The 1 Train is no longer the best for that. I’m not going to tell which one is the best one now. All the seats would be taken and my friend who told me this, who has a classy degree by the way, would no longer be able to find a place.
So, in a word, controlled rent or else untold disaster. There would be about 2 million more people without a place to live.