Zero Hedge doesn't seem to know, either. Seriously, price controls?
Yeah, rent control = price control...but this is on the real author -
Michael Weinstein is the president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the largest global HIV/AIDS organization, and AHF's Healthy Housing Foundation. - ZH's sin was posting it...but I learned long ago that ZH will periodically post stuff at variance with its editorial preference (aka - The Tyler's) and it is either to stir up the faithful or because it makes a fool like foolish using a another fool to do it...this seems to meet both criteria.
Besides, any kind of price controls tried in history from ancient times to modern times and they never worked, never prevented a revolution (see France), never prevented a black market (see Venezuela) and here in America they got knocked down by SCOTUS (FDR 1935) and Nixon only got away with his temporary "freeze" because the Act that allowed signed into law was deemed legislatively permissible...
But they always fail, expand black markets, create resentment...