Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free.

This week's newsletter includes stories on: • The anticlimactic end of the wild legal fight over Charlottesville, Virginia's new zoning code. • Federal housing reform miraculously passed out of the Senate on a bipartisan basis during the shutdown. • Democrats' bad idea of letting furloughed government workers skip paying rent during the shutdown.

But first! Our lead item is on how Marc Benioff continues to pingpong between equally bad ideas on how to clean up San Francisco's streets.

Marc Benioff Continues To Be Wrong About Homelessness

This past week, Benioff, the billionaire founder and CEO of Salesforce, courted endless controversy when he told The New York Times that President Donald Trump should send in the National

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