Exactly. I don't think you can talk about rent control in California without acknowledging property tax control. In the long term, this reduces landlords' expenses, which is a savings they ought to be able to pass on to their renters.
If they had renters, they could pass those savings on. The article discusses how landlords are keeping units empty because it has become too risky/expensive to rent them.
When the law has become so restrictive that people would rather not engage in commerce at all, then it is broken. This isn't helping anybody.
