> Or said another way, if you have strong ties to the city and/or are a longtime resident of the neighborhood you win, if you don't you lose.

This has literally nothing to do with who ends up in a rent stabilized apartment.

In fact, new residents are more likely to end up in rent stabilized apartments than existing residents, so rent stabilization has the exact opposite effect of what you're describing it does.

> new residents are more likely to end up in rent stabilized apartments than existing residents

Citation needed on that one.

So cities should be walled off gardens that don’t let new people fair access the opportunities to be had within?