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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by gruez on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:21PM (#17740276)
>It’s illegal to sleep in an office. That legislation, like many others, was put in place to protect renters and workers

how did it protect workers/renters?

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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by Spooky23 on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:59PM (#17740465)
It eliminated a common form of worker abuse.
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Re:Prefab housing complex for UC Berkeley students goes up i... by extralego on Saturday August 11, 2018 @12:33PM (#17740331)
It didn’t.

That’s just what it was “created for”.

In other words, that was the rhetoric the council used to clear their conscience while helping their developer friends fill vacancies. It makes sense if you don’t think about it.

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