For the life of me, I don't understand why we don't replace rent control with means-tested cash grants if we really care about displacement (and pay for it out of a Land Value Tax, but that can be an orthogonal issue). The way we have it now, we're screwing arbitrary renters (including poor ones) that happen to move between apts more often, to pay arbitrary renters that happen to move less often (including rich ones). I don't understand how anyone could say it's good policy with a straight face.

Excerpt from that survey paper you cited, which reports that economists agree that "rent control is bad":

...I find that the preponderance of the literature points toward the conclusion that rent control introduces inefficiencies in housing markets. Moreover, the literature on the whole does not sustain any plausible redemption in terms of redistribution. The literature on the whole may be fairly said to show that rent control is bad, yet as of 2001, about 140 jurisdictions persist in some form of the intervention...