the worst thing you can do in this state is rent control. the reason that most people cant rent is that they are horrible risk to rent to...all that rent control is going to do is remove all the houses rented out by independent owners that don’t use a rental agency...you will see a lot of low end rentals leave the market totally because the risk and reward is to much....watch the homeless problem get worse because of this.
Rent control has always been a ticket to riches for fraudsters. Rent at the controlled price, sublet at market rate. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Some people do this with 10-20 apartments.
The roommate scam is easy. Dont tell your roommate it’s rent controlled & live for free.