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Originally Posted by the urban politician
I've always said that if our cities simply flung open the regulatory doors to housing construction, basement/attic apartments, reducing strict building codes, allowed property owners to more easily partition their homes into multi-unit housing, etc we wouldn't need Rent control laws (which only increase housing costs further)
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Since this seems to be about Bay Area politics, there's another politician, State Senator Scott Wiener, who keeps introducing bills in the state legislature that would open things up about as much as possible--actually more than is possible because his bills keep getting watered down and bottled up in committee. I seem to recall an earlier thread on one of his bills:
Sen. Wiener takes another shot at upzoning state's single-family landscape
Scott Wiener back with another plan to build denser housing in California
Critique of Housing Legislation Under Consideration by California State Senate and Assembly