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I am a renter living in Redwood City, and I implore you not to ban people from multiple <br />families from living together in "single family houses." We have a massive housing crisis <br />here in the Bay, and for young people like myself, pooling resources together to collectively <br />rent a house is often one of the only ways we can afford to live here. It may not be an ideal <br />arrangement, but it's one borne of necessity, and it offers an efficient way to make the most <br />of our limited housing stock. <br />If we really do want to prevent people from different families from living together in a <br />single family house, the correct solution isn't to ban the practice but to fix the core problems <br />that forced this situation. Allow property owners to build duplexes or triplexes on their lots <br />so they can increase the housing stock themselves. Make further investments in public <br />transit and bike lanes so newcomers don't feel the need to own a car that requires parking <br />and contributed to congestion. But simply banning the rentals amounts to saying that if you <br />aren't rich enough, you can't live here. <br />Sabeek Pradhan <br />