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by dragonwriter 1900 days ago
The renters suffering aren’t actual current renters so much as the would-be renters who can’t actually become renters in the City because there are no units available for them to rent.

Those people have no voting rights in the City.

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I can't tell if you're serious or not...

How can someone say with a straight face that it's unjust people who don't live in a jurisdiction have no say in how it's run?

> How can someone say with a straight face that it's unjust people who don't live in a jurisdiction have no say in how it's run?

AFAICT, no one said it was unjust that nonresidents don’t vote in city elections. It was raised as a reason the policy was unlikely to be changed at the city level, because the people adversely effected aren’t voters in the city.