How Zohran Mamdani’s Rent Freeze Fits into a Broader Economic Narrative Economist J. W.
Mason makes the case for reevaluating the conventional wisdom on rent control, arguing that measures like New York's recent two year rent freeze can protect tenants and promote affordable housing without reducing the long term supply of housing.
For decades, mainstream economists have argued that rent control is misguided because it reduces the long term supply of housing.