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@profwolff
Half of all renters in the US make major, long-lasting sacrifices to afford housing. A basic failing of US capitalism. Many millions suffer so a small minority - landlords - profit. The system is the problem.
Source: https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1776718498519003278
Imho Housing should be provided by the state.
I’d settle from even a small reprieve from the capitalist hellscape like not having to agree to forced binding arbitration to have a place to live.
How would that work exactly?
Decrease the "defence" budget and the private prison budget, put that money into building public houses that are managed by the state.
You know how parcels and or houses are bought or rented from realtors? That realtor is now the city. The city also employs janitors to keep the housing maintained. If you got a problem that needs fixing you call that janitor to get it fixed.
So instead having a private landlord you have a public landlord in the form of the state.
Look up social housing
The lion from Narnia would walk out of the wardrobe and say "housing is dank" and it will be so.
Kidding but I think housing should be more widely provided or subsidized for the poor, with a tapered payout for all the way into the middle class
Do you want shitty housing? Because that's how you get shitty housing. The government doesn't give a fuck about your comfort. They are as much a slum lord as Bob or Sandy or whoever owns the place you rent now. They will go with the lowest bidder, and do the bare minimum. The only benefit is the government pays SLIGHTLY more attention to safety standards (depending on your government).
Well but when the Government provides Housing and it's shitty throughout you can go and demonstrate for better quality of life which you can't when the housing is owned by privates. They will just put on the street.
Hit me up if you ever join a political party so I can vote for you
I didn't expect that vote of confidence :D
And yet the housing will be still shitty compared with market driven solutions, such is UBI
Homelessness is the market driven solution you dense as osmium apologist.
Where's that copy pasta that the only thing more depressing than the brutalist commieblock housing complexes is the homelessness they were built to prevent post WWII devastation?
It is one of the solutions. With UBI you should not have homeless (provided that you also have a mental care)
Everything is better than late stage capitalism. And UBI is the only correct answer against the AI revolution.
Shitty housing would still be a big leg up for the homeless and the near homeless. Lots of newly productive workers who aren't worried about a roof. Win win
Because having a house makes productive workers? I fail to see your logic here. A city I lived in did this. It didn't produce workers, it produced income for contractors as the buildings were outright destroyed by the 'tenants'. Needless to say the city didn't stay in that business long, less than a year actually.
If your goal is 'workers' while simultaneously bitching about capitalism...who do you plan on them to work for?
The data is clear: the best way to reduce homelessness is to simply give people a safe, private address.
It kinda is? There is public housing IIRC, the issue is the supply of it available and how many people who would be hypothetically eligible that just don't ever try for it, again because supply
Yeah crank that supply way up