The DSA’s rent control utopia is a housing market apocalypse

Published July 13, 2026 9:00am ET



Since moving to Washington, D.C., I have witnessed the persistent littering of the streets with socialist, propagandized leaflets promising cheaper housing courtesy of the Democratic Socialists of America.

After becoming accustomed to the daily eyesore, and with the recent victory of a DSA member in Washington, D.C.’s Democratic primary, I wondered what the DSA’s actual plan to fix housing costs is.

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