It will not help you find an affordable place to live, it will help those who already have existing leases hold on to them forever. Rent control does not create an abundance of housing, it just creates a constituency of people that gets a better deal than those who don't.

Except in practice people can't find affordable places with rent control because nobody is willing to leave their below market rate place. The real problem with it though is that it does not in any way fix the root cause of the problem, which is lack of supply.

> It’s here to ensure people can still find affordable places to live.

Rent control does the opposite. It radically reduces choices and increase on price on people looking for a place to live.

Rent control chooses a small handful of existing renters to be winners. And it makes everyone else a loser. Except it's also shitty renters, because it traps them in place. Sure it gives them a home somewhere. But it denies them opportunity to move to another city, or even the other side of time, to pursue opportunity.