bread is too expensive. to fix this, you: 1) ban the construction of all new bakeries 2) create loopholes whereby bakers can negotiate one-off deals to build a bakery as long as they promise to give away a certain number of free loaves of bread do you think bread prices would go up or down?
Boston’s chief planner is a true believer in the San Francisco model, in which you make it impossible to profitably build apartments by-right so developers are forced into a politicized discretionary negotiation with the city, which relaxes the rules in exchange for below-market units.