The Board of Supervisors would love to impose some punitive tax increases to increase their slush fund and fritter it away on non-profits and unions.

They just have to ask voters nicely first, and if tenants really are fleeing in numbers and new tenants can’t or won’t move in at these prices, that’s not looking more likely to happen.

We could cut rent control, then landlords might want to rent out at a sane, well, saner, price again.