Building more units is the only true, long-term solution. But even if it ever happens, it will take many years. Meanwhile, the following should happen: * Fire

Building more units is the only true, long-term solution. But even if it ever happens, it will take many years. Meanwhile, the following should happen: * Firefighters, teachers, etc., who receive a salary from the local government should be paid enough to live within a reasonable distance. It's fair to them and it's necessary for them to do their (crucial) jobs properly. * Their salaries must rise until they are high enough. * Taxes must be raised until the local government can pay those higher salaries. * Most of those taxes should be on the various multi-billion corporations, because no one else can bear them. Those corporations are also the main cause of the rise in rent, so this is logical in that sense as well: taxes can keep rising until they slow down in bringing people here and raising rents. In other words, raise taxes until growth slows down to the rate at which we are building units.