
ALT Aaron Berg: So what you want to do is you want to build houses that are going to be fixed rent houses? Harvey Milk: Not necessarily fixed rents. But if you build enough housing, then supply and demand takes care of itself and keeps the rent down. When you have only two or three percent vacancies in the city, and they're not choice vacancies, then the landlord can raise the rent. It's the same thing if you want to buy a new camera. Not nothing wrong with your Pentax, but if you want to buy a new camera, and I want to buy a new camera and there's only one camera around, we're gonna bid for it. But if there were three cameras around, we don't have to bid very high. And the same thing with housing. If there's not enough housing, then the landlords just raise the rents. But if we were to build overnight, say—you know, say do I be God, and tomorrow morning there's fifteen thousand more housing units in the city... then I'm not going to have to pay my high rent. I'll go someplace else.





























