What a disaster of a process. I love to see more housing, but a years-long negotiation over a few percent of "affordable" housing is precisely the reason rents keep going up.

We need dozens of projects like this going up in every neighborhood every year just to match population and job growth, requiring each new housing project to get the blessing of the local council member has proven time and time again to slow development and raise rents.

We need comprehensive zoning and building regulation reform to enable serious growth in a way that will actually make a difference to all of our working and middle class neighbors, not just the lucky few who happen to win the housing lottery.