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You can be an immigrant and be eligible to be president. You merely must have been born before the 1790s. That's how both Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul are/were eligible.

To the extent that rent control might reduce evictions, those benefits are rarely, if ever, baked into economists' models.

Wait, why would creating an incentive to evict for trivial reasons (recent example: teenage kid was smoking in the house without parents permission) result in fewer evictions?

I volunteered at San Quentin for a bit, the "Teach in Prison" program. Formerly "Bears Behind Bars."

It was crazy how under-supported the education program was. The ESL teacher didn't even speak Spanish. At the same time it was very inspiring to see how dead seriously these folks took whatever opportunities were afforded them.

But then we were also told that folks actually try to get into San Quentin from other California prisons because at least there is something. I was and am a bit skeptical.

Is there actually some sort of hierarchy of California prisons? How much control, if any, do you have over where you do your time?

I also always felt relatively safe when walking through the yard unescorted. Never saw any violence. Is everyone on their "best behavior" when volunteers are walking through "or else," or is it typically as mellow as what I could see on the surface?

it protects renters on the edge now, which is more important for them than any drawbacks.

The bath water is dirty, so toss the entire bathtub and the baby into the trash?

You guys mentioned mental health services earlier. Putting incarcerated persons in the prison nearest to their loved ones would seem like the most cost effective mental health initiative in the entire universe.