Rent control is no solution to our housing crisis

The crisis caused by the rising cost of housing in California has a solution: Build more housing.
People can debate where or what type of housing should be built, but there can be no doubt that more housing is needed. That’s why it’s so troubling that a measure headed for the November ballot would cause less housing to be built.
Proponents of the Affordable Housing Act seek to repeal the 1995 Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act, which put statewide limits on local governments’ pow