As San Jose struggles with its piece of Silicon Valley’s housing crisis, its City Council tinkered Tuesday night with the city’s apartment rental regulations in hopes of protecting residents most vulnerable to the vicious market without encouraging landlords and developers to take their business elsewhere.

It’s the third time in 13 months the council has made changes to the city’s rental laws.

As frustrated Councilmember Johnny Khamis — who acknowledged that he comes across as heartless because he views the conundrum from what he calls “a business point of view” — told his colleagues: “We keep creating new laws, we keep creating new regulations, but what we’re not creating is affordable housing. I think our (housing) department is tasked to work on … ways that we can micromanage businesses and we don’t focus as hard on creating new housing.”

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