[imtringued]

>If you remove rent control tomorrow, there's going to be no shortage of immediate, acutely suffering victims of that political decision.

That's how rent control works in a high demand area by design.

people suffer from high rents -> rent control is introduced -> people suffer less -> people oppose higher density because they don't suffer -> prices of real estate increase in the meantime -> rent control ends (moving/displaced) -> people suffer from high rents even more

The ideal scenario would be this:

people suffer from high rents -> higher density is introduced -> people benefit from low rents