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Maybe renters were such a crazy high percent that despite the fact they were all wrapped up in their jobs and children vs retirees with nothing else to do in their $1M house than show up to meeting to influence the political apparatus they they still finally balanced out at the planning and zoning meetings.

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California also passed a ton of laws that effectively upzoned the state in various ways. Minnesota did the same thing a few years back.

This seems like the only real path - you cannot beat out these skeezy local homeowners and landlords at the corrupt local politics game. You need statewide politicians who have political ambitions to build off of solving these problems.

plenty of renters ask for rent control instead of increasing supply. Often they make the mistake of seeing high prices for new apartments and mistakenly believe those high prices mean the rent is going up over all.

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