32 Distillation Guidebook Co-Lab • 9.18–9.19 2025 dimensional view, and I would say unfortunately there’s no magic bullet. I think we need maximum input. In the planning and regulatory processes, we need inputs from planning professionals, city staff, architects, developers, builders and tradespeople, people in finance, advocates and activists, and residents, of course, including both renters and homeowners. The diversity of inputs and approaches is so important. There’s also a really big role in all of this for community organizers. There’s so much relational work. One thing I’ve observed in the CLUP process is how important community organizing and building consensus over time are. Part of what we’re doing is simplifying regulation so it’s more legible and predictable, reducing the cost and risk of development. More known knowns will allow development to happen more affordably and quickly. Yet, this organizing work, this relational work, moves very slowly and requires a lot of communication and patience. If you come into a community and say, “we’ve already done all the research and read all the scholarship, and we already know what’s best, and here’s what we think you should do,” and people aren’t on board with that, you really can’t rush them into it. They need to come to it in their own time. So there’s a tension there with the quick change needed to address the housing crisis. Going from reform to implementation is going to require relational work, interdisciplinarity, multi stakeholder processes. Another set of tensions arises around the role of government, What is the role of public versus private entities? Whether you’re thinking about financing or procurement processes or approval processes. What is the role of public input? How do you design a process so that it’s useful and substantive and not just performative or bogging everything down?
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