California thinks it can make housing more affordable by raising costs

Just like college students cramming for finals, our elected state representatives were up until the wee hours the last couple nights of California’s 2017 legislative session, arm twisting their colleagues to pass legislation that could only be supported by those who had been broken by exhaustion and caffeine overloads.
Two of those were Senate Bill 2 and Senate Bill 35, deceptively packaged and sold as measures to bring affordability to California’s highest-in-the-nation rents and mo