The author focuses on the irony of the idea of the minimum wage increase and his perspective of how it will affect people in the long term. The author emphasizes his perspective that it will have a serious consequence directed toward the low income and will make their life harder. Later the author focuses on his perspective of the rent control freeze in 2015. The author explains that doing more about rent control will drastically worsen the already negative consequences of the freeze.
I liked how you were talking about how all of these ideas that are made to make things better for people are actually going to cause harmful effects on people and or rent control. Good job!