I'm not sure you would need to get rid of prop 13. An alternative might be a state law that gives workers who work more than, say 20 hours a week in a city the

I'm not sure you would need to get rid of prop 13. An alternative might be a state law that gives workers who work more than, say 20 hours a week in a city the right to vote in that city's elections. That way the commuters, who tend to be more numerous and poorer than those who manage to rent in the area would form a voting bloc that might be sufficient to offset the (natural) self interest of the city's home owners, who often want to restrict supply of new housing or transport.