Is rent control really a form of social control and/or exclusion?

Question

Either as a way for the politicians to have a captive voting block and/or to exclude certain people out of a certain area. Since the politicians know the developers won't build more places for others to live. Not unlike the way gerrymandering works.

new york city,boston,San Francisco,the usual suspects

Answer 1

Rent control doesn't really exist in NYC anymore. The only people who have rent controlled apartments are those who have kept them for decades, or people who inherited the lease from dead relatives, etc.

If you mean rent stabilized, then there are plenty of those apartments. They are all over the city, not just in certain areas though I suppose there probably are more in poorer neighborhoods. There is no room to build new developments in NYC so that part doesn't really apply. Rent stabilization is a program that landlords sign up for, not one that the city requires in certain areas from what I understand.

I don't know about Boston or San Francisco, those issues may be more relevant there?