RENT CONTROL, 2015
digital illustration
The traditional image of a panic button, or emergency stop switch, is adopted to comment on the emergency state of people living in the red-hot housing market of the California Bay Area. With evictions and uncontrolled rent hikes being a norm, the piece suggests it is time to hit the panic button. It is now an emergency and we need relief, we need a solution for the rising costs of living which are robbing individuals of their wealth and destroying the buying power of the dollar.