I mean, the TVTrope entry is literally called "Friends Rent Control"
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It's not that people can't conceive of rent control as existing, it's that people who benefit from rent control to that degree are very rare (and often not particularly marginalized or needy) so it still pisses people off to see it as a convenient handwave in fiction
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