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Like a game of Whac-a-Mole.

That’s how Jenny Schuetz, a researcher with the Brookings Institution, described the task for California lawmakers if they want to get cities to build more apartments.

It’s clear that the state needs them. Homeless advocates point straight to overpriced and scarce housing when they explain conditions on the streets.

“More supply” is a kind of mantra for developers who say cutting red tape to build new homes is the answer to the crisis — not rent controls.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has threatened legal action against communities he says aren’t meeting new housing goals.