I was happy to wade into a debate about rent control on The Stranger’s Blabbermouth podcast last week. There aren’t many voices, including on the City Council (with the exception of Councilmember Bagshaw who attended a twist and shout meeting about rent control last week but wasn’t allowed to say anything), standing up to challenge the disastrous rent control intervention. It won’t work. And even more importantly, rent control is illegal. So Councilmember Sawant and Licata are wasting real time and energy on something we can’t do and would would just raise prices even if we could. Take a listen to the debate and we’ll be tracking and opposing efforts to pass a resolution supporting rent control in Seattle.