I think you're missing the forest for the trees - the actual premise behind this idiocy is to try to compel landlord to rent out the vacant units when it's demo

I think you're missing the forest for the trees - the actual premise behind this idiocy is to try to compel landlord to rent out the vacant units when it's demonstrably uneconomical * for them to do so. The stated reasons (health reasons whatever other bs that's actually redundant to what's on the books already) are there just to avoid the invariable regulatory taking lawsuits. Politicians love to hand out free stuff when someone else has to pay for it. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revealed_preference