Often the regulations are the start of the problem. I remember reading an article in Portland that the city was expecting N new people to move there in the nex

Often the regulations are the start of the problem. I remember reading an article in Portland that the city was expecting N new people to move there in the next 10 years. So they approved construction of housing for N-200k people. They intentionally set things up to push the poorest and most vulnerable 200k people into homelessness.