[toxik]

Rent control is not the cause. These suburbs you correctly identify as undesirable would not become more palatable just because landlords were allowed to extract extortionate rents from an inherently limited supply resource.

What you suggest would in fact probably lead to MORE segregation and MORE of the same issues.

Wages don’t magically rise because you abolish rent control, either. You would simply price out the less wealthy to live… in the shitty suburbs.