If granny doesn't leave, it's disingenuous to suggest nobody isn't getting kicked out. It will be someone who has to play by market-rate rules; probably a lower middle class family paying market-rate rent that gets squeezed too far. That's one or two less firemen or teachers or chefs or postal workers in the area.
Why should some people have to give up their homes, but not others, is the more interesting question to ask. If nobody should ever have to give up their living arrangement due to exogenous factors (like a trillion dollar industry popping up in your backyard-- which, to be fair, isn't what happens to most neighborhoods), then we should be doubling down Prop 13 and rent control.
Why should some people have to give up their homes, but not others, is the more interesting question to ask. If nobody should ever have to give up their living arrangement due to exogenous factors (like a trillion dollar industry popping up in your backyard-- which, to be fair, isn't what happens to most neighborhoods), then we should be doubling down Prop 13 and rent control.