It's pretty simple. Delivery apps and ride share services should have to share their drivers vehicle information with the states motor vehicle registry. If they receive a ticket while operating for the service, the company is responsible for paying the ticket.

Regardless of how much those companies want to fight the classification, there's not a good argument that they aren't employees.

Your best bet in the area is Facebook marketplace unless you get lucky with the odd craigslist post.

I agree that's what a lot of riders would say, but it's a complete waste of human resources. If something like transit is such a public good (users and non-users), there's no reason to put an additional burden on those that choose to use the service when it's such a low cost when distributed across the population. Taxes are the most efficient way to fund public services. All that said, public transit should receive way more funding.

I mean take for example, Massachusetts, there are ~5 million tax payers and the MBTA, public transit system that collects the most fares in the state, collects ~675 million in fares. Even if you spread that equally to every tax payer that is only $135 per person for the entire year. There is zero reason to include collection systems except to punish transit users.

Any reasonable landlord would convert from oil heating.

Changing zoning laws is an important step, but this problem is decades in the making. The average worker needs rental assistance from the state until the ten of thousands of missing homes are finally built.