Seems to be pretty much disinformation though. There is a section about Sweden at the end, but it is ignoring everything that has happened in the last 20 years. Of course rent control 'doesn't work' when you are converting government owned apartments to co-ops at below market rate, subsidizing co-ops and issuing 100 year mortgages. Rent control has to be combined with active building policies if you want more housing, in which case it actually keeps down the value of land. That is the big problem in most cities today, builders simply can't get land at a price to build affordable housing.