We don't want people homeless but on the other hand, we don't want people producing unsafe housing just to keep costs down.
It's a particularly nasty problem that I've only seen discussed in that one article.
It means stuff like "houses must be single story", "no apartments", "yards required", "minimum 2500 square feet", "setback from street".
[1] - Although I have seen a lot of threads about how the requirements for multiple exits in US apartment buildings is probably unjustified. See also elevator requirements.
People see someone making $6/hour and think that passing a law that minimum wage must be $8 means that person will now make $8, but technically the law only says "it is now illegal to pay that person $6."
Some businesses may be able to afford the raise and still turn a profit, but for others, if that person's labor is worth $7/hour to your bottom line, it is suddenly no longer a good business decision to keep them employed.
not all companies of course, but as an aggregate, companies will follow this rule
So the minimum wage is really about deciding what type of society we want to live in. Do we want servants, or do we want opportunity? In developed countries, jobs below the minimum wage get automated or some form of government assistance pays for the jobs that can't be, for better or worse.
A better word for deregulation might be decivilization.