You see this dynamic across policy areas in California. Even in something as simple as garbage collection in LA, multi-family homeowners pay full freight while single family homeowners get a discounted rate subsidized by everyone else.
This is a politically popular approach for lawmakers because you get to look pro-affordable housing while not materially affecting the donor class and laundering NIMBY objections in a do-gooder veneer.
But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.
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But it's regressive and counterproductive to the goal of broadly solving affordability issues.