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Nobody ever claimed landlords collude in some backroom to raise prices and keep them high; they act in their own best interest and respond to the complex dynamics of the market. The question is then, how do you create incentives that lead to rational self interested individuals not raising rent, or at least not too quickly?

Dimwits think the government can just set prices and ignore how human behavior leads to marker dynamics. Midwits understand that market dynamics are an emergent and organic property of human interaction but adopt a defeatist attitude. A few more IQ points and you realize that the dynamical system of the market can be influenced like any other dynamical system through tuning the right parameters.