[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright

No, it will be passed through, it is always passed through. You even named the mechanism through which it will be passed through. Developers will simply build fewer apartments causing rents to soar. They might build more condos, but given the debt burden most Millenials and Gen X'ers have that's not going to help much.

At the end of the day there simply is no "I'd like to have my cake and eat it to", it doesn't work that way. If Chicago becomes a more expensive place to own property then it becomes a more expensive place to live. If condos have other hidden costs like lawsuits or higher end finishes like you mention and we start building more condos because apartments become less profitable. Then housing costs rise because the housing costs more to build. There is no "now we are going to legislate cheaper housing" or "now we are going to pass the tax to end the entire pension crisis". You can't just legislate money or assets into existence.

This.

One hundred percent