Competition Beats Unions

When addressing landlord abuse and low wages, promoting stronger market competition (more suppliers, easier entry, anti-monopoly enforcement) can be more effective and less politically fraught than relying on unionization campaigns that tie together tenants and workers. This argues for policy tools like deregulation that lower barriers to entry, stricter antitrust enforcement, and targeted consumer protections instead of expanding collective‑bargaining as the primary remedy. — If adopted, this framing would shift housing and labor debates away from organizing-driven solutions toward structural market fixes, affecting city policy on housing, zoning, and labor regulation.