An opponent makes the pro-housing case for you

Sometimes a pro-housing reform’s most articulate communicator is that reform’s biggest opponent. In a remarkable video, NYC Councilmember Vicky Paladino describes how New York’s pro-housing ballot measures have ended the “member deference” housing vetoes that are typically inevitable in city councils with single member districts. (Though member deference is impossible in at-large city council charters, and at-large charters can be combined with Ranked Choice Voting to satisfy the Voting Rights Act free of district-based residential segregation, NYC voters just achieved similar results through an override board with citywide officials.)