Comment by MangoToupe
6 days ago
> People in poverty have to pay for housing.
No, they don't have to. That's a decision our society has made, and in my opinion it was a horribly evil one.
6 days ago
> People in poverty have to pay for housing.
No, they don't have to. That's a decision our society has made, and in my opinion it was a horribly evil one.
Even if the government is paying for housing for them, cheaper housing means that the government can pay for more people's housing. Building housing reduces the price of housing...
> cheaper housing means that the government can pay for more people's housing.
Which we will never do, because it depresses property values.
Look "abundance" bullshit would make sense in a continuum of housing policy. But by itself we're just doubling-down on reinforcing homelessness as an american institution.