Let's be frank. One result of the Great Recession was a big lurch upward in wealth & income inequality, with trillions being effectively transferred from displaced homeowners to fat wallet investors.  

I hope the RG series will look more closely at the vast conversion of owner-occupied homes into rental properties, and the matching conversion of homeowners to renters. You can't get real about the supply & demand aspects of the home rental market without addressing these factors.

And yes, of course, the more and better local bandaids we can imagine and create, the better! But contrary to the implications of the first sentence in the editorial, it's a nationwide problem, fueled by banking corruption on a national scale…which has been allowed to accrue to the benefit of the investment banking  owners.

The kind of changes the RG editorial board is suggesting at the federal level will require not just a new administration, but a new Congress, one with a renewed sense of basic fairness.