In a city with rapidly rising housing needs, there is really only one way to keep housing prices stable or falling: produce a lot of housing.
Rent controls are a recipe for less housing, and unaffordable rents. At least for most people.
What makes restitution work well in Japan is that private individuals and groups are much more responsible for controlling crime.
A group of people from the Alaska panhandle, in order to talk policy about a forest right next door, had to fly thousands of miles to do so.
