For the duration of the post Vatican II crisis, it is ideal for laymen to set up and hold ownership of the places where Mass is said. It is the safest and most sure way to ensure that local families are not left out in the cold.
Good priests can fall ill and even die, and even the best of groups can fail from the top down, especially after many years. One only has to look at the recent fall of the SSPX. One must also consider that priests weren't personally meant to own church buildings any more than laymen were. In normal times, the Diocese would own them. So we must keep in mind the extraordinary nature of the times we live in.
Last but not least, priests will always have a big picture view, focusing on the greater good. They have to love all their spiritual children equally. They try to be completely rational about it: if there is a conflict, Milwaukee, WI with 80 faithful should be abandoned for Kansas City, MO with 120 faithful. Which is more valuable: 80 souls or 120 souls? But when a layman lives in Milwaukee, WI, he is going to care mostly about that place, because that's where he and his family live. He makes no pretense to being unbiased. He is more invested in the long term spiritual good of Milwaukeeans specifically than even the good priests who say Mass there.
I believe my ideas are consonant with His Excellency Bishop Williamson's latest Eleison Comments. Strange as it sounds, I actually penned these lines before I read the latest EC.
This is just one more way in which we must abandon the old SSPX paradigm. The SSPX owned 100% of their Mass locations. That should naturally change in the Resistance. If I am wrong about this, I invite anyone to demonstrate how I'm wrong.