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[AZJonnie]

24. If you set rent controls, you dissuade the institutional investors from buying up all the homes

because they then jack up the rents once they get enough penetration in a given area, using software in monopolistic fashion to make sure everyone jacks them at the same time. If you disallow that, the investors will stop seeing it a cash cow.

So, these two things are intimately tied. And Democrats were probably working an angle (rent controls) that had some chance of withstanding court challenges, because they were serious about doing something. However, I'd bet money that Trump's "efforts" will fail, because he doesn't actually care about doing this the right way and is purposefully choosing an angle that will fail. He just wants it look like he's doing something that a lot of public will see as "good". And when the courts say "you can't do this" he'll go "oops, oh well, I tried" if he even admits he failed, and the lapdog media won't broach the subject of the failure unless he does.