If the Democratic discourse du jour pits populist socialism against technocratic “Abundance,” nobody seems to have told New York City voters. One the same day that a majority chose Zohran Mamdani to be the second-ever democratic socialist occupant of Gracie Mansion (and a decidedly more fervent one than David Dinkins), voters also overwhelmingly approved three amendments to the city’s charter that would streamline the bureaucratic morass around housing production. The ballot questions proposed technical tweaks more than sweeping restructurings. The first will create two fast tracks for housing developments that require city approval: One applies to 100 percent “deeply affordable” projects citywide, and the other covers developments composed of at least one quarter permanently affordable units, in the twelve districts of the city that produce the least affordable housing (currently a union of the wealthy, white upper sides of Manhattan and majority-homeowner neighborhoods at the edges of the outer boroughs).…