<h2 class="css-3gg6jm-NormalDek-NormalDek-Styled-Styled-Styled emwm06f0" style="box-sizing: border-box; --headline-font-color: #222222; --headline-link-hover-color: #0274b6; margin: 0px; color: rgb(85, 85, 85); direction: ltr; font-size: 20px; line-height: 28px; font-family: Retina, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">St. Paul enacted rent controls, and housing construction plummeted. Next-door Minneapolis generated a downtown boom without regulating rent. See the article <a target="_blank" href="https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/minnesota-rent-control-regulation-prices-34221bd4?st">here</a>.</h2><p></p>