Is this the sort of thing that the government should be regulating in principle? I don’t think it is. (But then, I do tend to lean libertarian.) Plus, it seems like it would reduce the supply of and increase the price of housing.

youre only looking it in the POV of a non pet owner. in a perspective of a pet owner that would increase the supply of houses because their initial choices were already (artificially) limited. again it only increases the prices of other houses because of more competition to rent, but in the pet owners perspective, it lowers it because the supply itself rapidly grew.

Who gives a fuck about a pet owner’s perspective? Owning pets is a choice. Existing in the society we’re born to is not a choice. So, if you can’t afford the increased cost of pet ownership, you’re not entitled to increase the costs for everyone else to accommodate your main character syndrome. Why are pet owners so goddamn entitled and fucking insufferable?