Yea but...rent control does not work. It's never worked here. I like the fact that he's very dedicated to building housing though, which is the real way you lower rent.
I don't think one can make the categorical statement that rent control does not work. It hasn't achieved its desired outcomes in some instances, but it has helped in others. It's a tool that can/should be successfully deployed in conjunction with other housing growth and supply policies, because they target different problems. But I would agree that rent control is not a panacea for all housing ills, especially in a place like New York.
The point is that the bourgeois/billionaire class like Mark Cuban are ideologically oriented against policies like rent control because they are an attempt to restrain their unfettered power. It's a clear and raw expression of the state reigning in the ability for private, monied interests to treat the public in any way they want. And if you'll notice, the bourgeois/billionaire class like Mark Cuban will never pair their criticisms of policies like rent control with suggestions of alternative means to help the working class if it comes primarily at their expense. Same playbook with a wealth tax. Cuban didn't even deign to point out why the policy is bad, he just said it's never going to happen because he knows he has an outsized voice and believes he has the right to dictate the terms of reality because he's rich. And the petit-bourgeois centrists will brainlessly nod along to these out-of-hand dismissal of policies that leash capital because they are completely ideologically captured.
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