Housing Justice Audit Report (Draft)

A scathing condemnation of the "Unconscious Abdication" Mental Model behind "Passive Investing" and the viscous cycles of harm it causes in the Charleston, SC Housing and Housing Justice System.

And a clear plan for true positive change.

Document Details

Independent Systems Analysis of Charleston’s Housing Justice Ecosystem
Publication Date: February 17, 2026
Document: Housing Justice Audit of the Charleston, SC Housing and Housing Justice System
Contents: Paradigm-level systems analysis of the Justice-Harm Loop and failure demand in Charleston housing, study findings tables, and epilogue documenting Jonathan S. Altman’s pivotal choice between extraction and Conscious Co‑Stewardship.

Executive Summary

Charleston Housing Justice Audit: Exposing a Systemic Crisis

How does the Housing Justice system respond to demand when its Most Vulnerable Member asks the system for fair treatment and justice when it isn't given?

This Housing Justice Audit converts cascading, compounding levels of escalating harm to one tenant family into a systems-level map of how Charleston’s housing and housing justice institutions actually behave when a Most Vulnerable Member asserts basic rights. Starting with a simple value demand for safe, respectful treatment in the midst of systemic patterns of misrepresenting laws, confusing and contradictory communications, bullying, contradictory reasons for having to leave, and promised new blinds that never showed up in 5 years, the response cascaded into forged postal evidence, retaliatory eviction, privacy weaponization, probate fraud, intermingling of business identities, regulatory obstruction, and multi-firm lawfare – generating eight- to nine-figure failure demand and revealing a brittle extraction paradigm at scale.

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Key Findings

  • Justice-Harm Loop: Each attempt to seek remedy – from maintenance to regulators to courts – triggered higher levels of harm instead of resolution, proving a system optimized for ejection, not correction.
  • Paradigm Problem, Not Just Policy: Donella Meadows’ leverage-point framework shows most local reforms sit at low-leverage parameters while the underlying paradigm – housing as an extraction commodity and tenants as replaceable parts – remained untouched.
  • Conscious Co‑Stewardship as Replacement: The report proposes a new paradigm where owners, managers, and tenants share responsibility for “shelter where life stories play out,” enforced through STL Schema architecture that permanently connects conduct to reputation.
  • Pivotal Choice Moment: As a high‑profile affordable housing leader and beneficial owner of the subject property, Jonathan S. Altman faced a public fork in the road: become a model of Conscious Co‑Stewardship or double down on paradigm defense – either path advancing the paradigm shift in different ways.

This is a working draft released for public review, pending a final first edition depending in part on Jonathan S. Altman's response; future updates will deepen the data, add systems study instructions, and document how others adapt the model.

Media Inquiries

For questions about this report and related filings, contact: Chris McNeil at rocketsfight@gmail.com
Chris McNeil, Pro Se Plaintiff
Email: Click here to email with web form
Case: 2025-CP-10-05095, Charleston County Court of Common Pleas

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    Housing Justice Audit Report (Draft)

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    A scathing condemnation of the "Unconscious Abdication" Mental Model behind "Passive Investing" and the viscous cycles of harm it causes in the Charleston, SC Housing and Housing Justice System.

    And a clear plan for true positive change.