Cape Town's ongoing dispute over rent control has stepped into sharper focus, with Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis arguing that capping rental prices would damage the city's long-term housing prospects rather than ease affordability pressures.
The mayor, responding to renewed calls for a rental cap during an interview with Cape Talk , described the idea as a really bad intervention that may feel emotionally appealing but ultimately undermines the very households it intends to help.
Hill-Lewis argued that rent control has failed repeatedly across the world, as reported by EWN .
