Please point to all of the comments (or even one) in which people said, "let's prevent housing developers from building any housing at all" — we’ll wait.

>How much money does a developer have to spend to have to build new places in RI renting for $500-1200? Figure that out and then ask "well if it costs that much why would they do it?”

You mean you don’t actually know, but you’re sure it’s too much to do. Why haven’t you figured it out? It would make your argument more compelling if it were actually substantiated, instead of just being whatever Tucker Carlson says.

>this guy is ready to spend money to build a building. There are no/few others that are willing.

We don’t need the building he wants to build for his own personal profit — does that part matter at all?

What if he wanted to build a 300-story building, do we have to allow that because he’s “ready to spend money”?