> California lawmakers approved a statewide rent cap on Wednesday covering millions of tenants, the biggest step yet in a surge of initiatives to address an aff

> California lawmakers approved a statewide rent cap on Wednesday covering millions of tenants, the biggest step yet in a surge of initiatives to address an affordable-housing crunch nationwide. As though California is at all symptomatic of the problem of providing affordable housing in the rest of the nation. They might as well say it's the biggest step taken in an affordable-housing crunch globally. A whole article about California's housing problem without a single mention of Prop 13, though? That's some impressive willful ignorance.