Austin's real estate market just proved something economists debate endlessly: supply works. This week the city is celebrating a genuine policy victory—22% rent decline in three years through aggressive zoning reform, no rent control, no magical thinking. But in the same breath, a $279 million consultant spending audit is exposing something worse: systemic government waste that made voters reject a $110 million tax hike by a 63-37 margin last November. Meanwhile, SXSW kicks off tomorrow as the c