If it wasn't for "renter-friendly" laws many renters would have had to move already or wouldn't have moved there in the first place. It's like saying that progr

If it wasn't for "renter-friendly" laws many renters would have had to move already or wouldn't have moved there in the first place. It's like saying that programming would be much better if we required everyone to have an engineering degree. It would, but it would also be a different set of programmers. People who got in to programming because it didn't necessarily require a degree wouldn't be very pleased.