Price control is not the right solution if you intend to solve housing problems. By doing so you violated the principle of free market . The best way to go is to encourage people invest in rental real estate. The more houses built the cheaper the price gets which is the basic laws of demand. Government can also subsidies low income people instead of trying to become generous with other people money. I sometimes get confused by the government policies whether it is a free market or a socialist . We know what socialism did to the economy and it is like history repeats itself. Those who fail to learn from the past are doomed to repeat the same