As The Exalted Feathered One pointed out, when government increases the cost of building and maintaining housing and makes it less remunerative - through land use restrictions, take-aways, rent "control", and regulations - government artificially makes housing more scarce than it would be otherwise. Increased scarcity causes increased prices for desired commodities.
As for the government-mandated wage rate increases, did government and advocates expect no consequences? Business owners don't pull money out of their rectums! In response, businesses cut hours, cut staffing, and increase prices (what was that nonsense about affordability?).
In yet another unintended (?) consequence, SF Bay Area freeway-building and -expansion has been pretty minimal since Reagan was governor. Consequently, commuting in and out of SF is nightmarish (and BART is pretty packed in commute hours; CalTrain probably is as well). So businesses who think they're going to find lots of low-wage workers willing to commute from ?? (the Peninsula, Marin, East Bay, and Silicon Valley aren't exactly low-cost housing havens!) are hallucinatory.
Welcome to Government Regulated Paradise!
And now, I need to commute to work, half way up the Peninsula!
