Reporters should stop quoting "experts" who reject the well-documented empirical evidence about housing markets out of an ideological distaste for market rate development.

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And it's very much Huffman just being sneaky because he agrees with you that he wants to kill the bill, but won't just say it.

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The odds of it passing are low already. (Everywhere I look, left & right, I see people retreating into their tribal bubbles.) But if it doesn't pass, there is not some better bill, free of uncomfortable tradeoffs, over the horizon. There just isn't. People who tell you otherwise are misleading you.

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I would add, @realjaredhuffman.bsky.social knows all this. The leaders of the green groups opposing this bill know all this. They know the idea of a tradeoff-free bill just over the horizon is an illusion. It's false. When they say it, they are misleading their members, their voters.

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And, I would say, it's false in a way that's fairly obvious to anyone who knows how Congress works, so it's hard for me not to view it, at least coming from veteran NGO leaders, as *deliberately* misleading, in a way I find somewhat infuriating. Let's walk through the logic.

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