Bring back rent control in Boston

There is nowhere in the country where someone working a full-time minimum-wage job could afford to rent a modest two-bedroom apartment, according to an annual report released in 2018 by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition. In Boston, you’d need to earn
$ 33.46 an hour.
This simple fact is the crux of the current housing crisis in Boston, and the result is a spike in what is known as the shelter poverty phenomenon: the deprivation of non-shelter necessities resulting from the gap between income and housing costs.
In 1995 , one year after the elimination of rent control in Boston,the median rent for a 2 bedroom in Boston was 882.00. Today, that same 2-bedroom unit costs 2,194.00. In Roxbury, currently one of the neighborhoods hardest hit by the most recent wave of gentrification, the median cost of housing rose 70% between 2010 and 2015. As a result of the removal of the protection of rent control, longtime residents are forced out, the population becomes more transient and the fabric of the neighborhood is weakened.
Lack of decent, affordable housing negatively impacts the health, well being and economic security of the citizens of Boston. Rent control is one solution among many that we need to implement to protect the poor and the working class from the greed of real estate developers.