They tried, it got too much resistance. There are essentially two anti-housing groups: 1. People who have a vested interest in inflating housing prices, e.g. b

They tried, it got too much resistance. There are essentially two anti-housing groups: 1. People who have a vested interest in inflating housing prices, e.g. because they own property 2. People who seriously, genuinely believe that more market-rate housing won't help affordability Targeting just affordable & teacher housing swings group (2), which combined with the YIMBYs is (hopefully) enough to get policy passed.