text: Aloha, Anthony - We don't mean to suggest that rent control, rent leveling or rent stabilization are the only responses to the homelessness crisis and dramatic affordable housing shortfall, only that our circumstances are so difficult, those options ought to be looked at to see whether any variety of them could be helpful for Honolulu. And they should be analyzed as we move forward aggressively to expand housing stock. While Krugman and other economists are largely in agreement on the downside of rent control, there's also no doubt that rent control has been beneficial in some markets, as we note here. Why not explore their approaches and others? We don't have to implement them, but we ought to know whether any of them hold potential benefit in a housing market where supply is so short of demand, it's hard to imagine a point at which we reach even. Dismissing those options out of hand seems shortsighted.