I think that sentiment is pretty far from uncontroversial amongst economists of all stripes.

Here's a survey paper:

http://econjwatch.org/articles/rent-control-do-economists-ag...

Here's what Matthew Yglesias --- hardly a standard-bearer for libertarian economics --- has to say about it:

http://beyondchron.org/matthew-yglesias-is-right-the-rent-is...

(Yglesias is not an economist but is a decent proxy, since this is kind of his "beat").