You're assuming that things can get worse for renters. The housing market in California is already non-functional because supply is not allowed to meet demand,

You're assuming that things can get worse for renters. The housing market in California is already non-functional because supply is not allowed to meet demand, which puts renters at a tremendous disadvantage. Efforts to relax restrictions on new housing construction have failed. Adding restrictions until the market breaks in ways that everyone hates might be the only way to get any momentum toward fixing things.