This endless blaming a lack of "supply" on the current rent price surge is really just out of hand. It's like, "OMG My landlord wants 35% more to renew. My kids go to public school, all their friends are here, i take public transit to work, I like everything about my life, but after looking around, I can't afford anything, so I need to pull my kids out of school, pull from savings to get a deposit for a new place in Oakland or San Leandro or some place outside the city."

THAT person is fucked. Building 1000000000 houses in a few years isn't going to change that for them.

So, I mentioned this situation someone was having to another build build build person, and was like, "Ok, go for the building, but the problem is right-now. What do we do to help all the people in this situation. Wouldn't some kind of rent control help?" and I was basically attacked like I was some kind of nazi monster.

We can hit these things from more than one direction. There's no reason that we can't build more AND not be assholes