[dragonwriter]

> Deregulation is how we got into the mess of housing!

No, its not, restrictive zoning preventing actually building housing is. Which is why the mess is most acute in places which have the most such restrictions, and least in places that have less of them, wven when they are similar across all the dimensions you suggest are the real issues.

> Rent controls would also do a great deal.

At further reducing supply of housing by discouraging development? Yes, they would do a great deal of that.