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You can think of rent control as a long term lease. It seems that population is generally also NIMBY.

I don't see how rent control and a long-term lease are at all comparable. Can you elaborate?

They both lock in a price. A long-term lease specifies what the rent will be for the length of the lease.

That's kind of like saying that you can think of a car as a roller skate because they each have four wheels.

A lease is a contract arrived at by mutual agreement. Rent control is imposed unilaterally as a government fiat.

In relation to NIMBYism the effects are the same