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You equate every Landlord to being greedy..doesn’t help the argument to come across as balanced.

What would be balanced is providing evidence of where rental control have worked.

You are right that though that specific read across from where they have been tried is not always easy as planning and housing varies so much in countries. That would hold for where (if?) they have been proven to be successful as well.

Berlin is also a great example of what havoc controls can have.

But it’s hard to see what this policy has done in terms of long term benefit and the article above re student accommodation shows just the danger of such things and their unintended consequences.
I think what I said is correct and I definitely didn't suggest that all landlords are greedy, did I?

"It's landlords that have pushed rents up, not a policy. You seem to struggle with distinguishing the impact of greed with the effect of legislation attempting to reduce the impact of that greed".



I think rent controls were well intended in Scotland and the on-going efforts to minimise the impact of exploitative rent rises is well considered.

The issue of rent controls is complex. Berlin, Buenos Aires, Melbourne (not sure if that was the Australian example), vastly different cities, with very different housing cultures from Scotland.