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By "tech" is meant "the community." You can't get policy change without enough people getting involved and supporting that change. Do you want to fix this?

Join YIMBY Action. Support pro-housing candidates at the polls. Tell your friends.

We in tech or the tech community live in a world where everything has a solid yes or no answer there are very few grays. The rest of the world is not like that. It's full of grays and they change constantly. If I can pick between a great politician or a great Techie to lead a community I will always pick the politician. They can lead a group of people. Techies can come up with the right answer given solid facts but that's not the real world.

I'm advocating that tech, as a collection of individuals, get involved in the social structures that can influence policy and politics. We've sat on the sidelines getting blamed for things for too long.

Well at least this is true: "tech can only work within the current regulations".