Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. As I mentioned last week, I'm on vacation and out of the country. So this newsletter, like the last, will be a bit shorter and less pegged to the news.

Instead, I wanted to write a column about the problem of using "one weird trick" to fix the housing crisis.

In a July installment of his Why Shit Not Working video series, New York City Councilmember Chi Ossé and actress Ilana Glazer took a swing at a few wonky regulations they say are making the city excessively expensive, like floor area ratios that govern the shape of buildings and sections of the building code that require two staircases and larger elevators in apartment buildings.

"The more you dig, the more bizarre rules you find making housing more expensive," says Ossé i

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