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adjl posted...

in the interim there's a pressing need to limit the power landlords have to screw over their tenants and to prevent the existing supply of housing from being eroded by things like speculators and wannabe hoteliers.

In what, the form of rent control? Which certainly does help the individual(s) currently living in any effected units, at the cost of anyone else who also would want to be there, worsening equality overall. It undeniably, irrevocably, decreases housing efficiency in the short term (more incentive to stay put even if moving to a larger or smaller would make more sense, i.e. less incentive for renters to properly sort themselves into the housing) and decreases supply in the long term (less incentive to build housing in an area that's going to be rent controlled).