Rent controls also ensure that landlords have little incentive to maintain units properly. Difficult problem require real solutions, not easy but ineffective and counterproductive policies!

The real answer is to understand and fix why rising rents don't lead to more units being available to rent - which is harder, because it's about zoning and restrictions on building, and other regulations that discourage the creation of more rental units.

Hi, so rent caps merely discourage supply, perpetuating the problem, they seek solve (and creating a new kind of inequality, between "lucky" renters protected by caps and the rest.)

Please describe the early negotiations that could have averted this catastrophe. I'll wait.

Yes, you need black pepper. Macaroni, butter and pepper.

"... coffee drinker *who* make...". Coffee drinkers are people too!

Or interrogating suspected terrorists. Cool white is a form of torture.

"Cool white" (aka 5000 k) is awful.