Except of course that if you read the article you'll notice that the main reason it does not work is because people abuse the system. The forces of supply and demand can be overridden, but then you have to enforce the rules and that is where things are derailing in this particular example. People subletting rent controlled apartments for profit or passing them on to relatives is the problem, not the rent control by itself.
Although your tone is rude, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
> The forces of supply and demand can be overridden, but then you have to enforce the rules
Enforceability is a key factor in whether a law will work. "Proper" use of rent control, like narcotic use, is very difficult to enforce without extremely authoritarian measures.
You can no more override supply and demand than you can override the CAP theorem. If you don't have sufficient supply then demand responds either with shortages or high prices.
People are rationally responding to incentives that exist. It's hard to get a rent controlled apartment because there is more demand than supply. So people are incentivized to give them to family because otherwise it could take a decade to get them.
Of course you can: governments do this all the time. Tariffs, incentives, taxes, subsidies, laws.
People in this case are responding to the need by renting out rent controlled apartments for a very large premium to people who under normal conditions may not be eligible to live there in the first place. Same thing here in NL, with in the larger cities a healthy dollop of AirBNB tossed in for some extra artificial shortage.
