Statewide rent control was recently enacted by Oregon and Washington. It's also statewide in California. Not coincidentally, all three have Democrats completely controlling the governorship and legislature.

Here's the DNC official platform:

https://democrats.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/2024-Democr...

I'd appreciate it if you found any free market proposals in it (I didn't read the whole thing).

I did notice the advocacy of rent control: "the Administration has eased rising rents by capping rent hikes in 2 million federally-funded apartments."

and

"It offers corporate landlords a basic choice for the next two years: either cap rent increases at 5 percent, or lose a valuable federal tax break."

and

"the Administration is going after unfair rental “junk fees,” like fees people are charged just to pay rent online or to receive sorted mail. And, we will crack down on corporate landlords who are gouging tenants, for example by capping the amount they can raise the rent each year"