Why is it that the left always looks to govt for a solution and yet, the govt was the one that created the rent control problem in the first place?   Well intentioned, but as most already knew, if one just read the implementing legislation that got politicians elected they would have readily been aware of the "however" clause(s).  It's an election year.  Maybe the candidates who supported this initiative might have answers as to why their program was SO unviable that it needed a subsidy to begin with...and then ask them if they knew about this loophole even after it was passed.  Nope.  Looks like they used the short term hoopla of "an affordable housing" solution to get elected, then when the inevitable bump in the road came, the issue became "complicated".