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Anyone that’s spent some time riding on the NYC subway can attest to this. No matter how much money you throw at them, they will keep begging or acting crazy.
Short of locking them up, what do you do with those people?
> Outlaw rental housing - force everyone to own their residence
The people we're most interested in helping are those pushed out by rising rents. Rents can't rise if they don't exist. New migrants can't drive rent up if rent doesn't exist - to the contrary, they would be increasing property value for all residents.
I'm confident we can make this work, people.
A big part of the problem is the use of Revenue Management Software to set prices. This obviously ends up working like a cartel. I note that: -Even when nation wide vacancies were at their highest in 30 years, rental price rose. -Even as home prices plummeted, rental price rose. -Rent has risen 30% _nation_ wide just since 2013 so zoning an limits on building can't be the main cause. https://www.census.gov/housing/hv…
I've never heard of Revenue Management Software. What effect does it have exactly? If you own some apartments, wouldn't you just check the local advertised prices and set your prices similarly, possibly also using whatever your social network of landlords can tell you?
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> endless money pits The reason they are money pits is because they aren't something that will be solved by a city or even a state. Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a "humane" way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area. The most effective way for a city or state to "solve" the local homeless problem is to simply pay for one-way bus tickets to somewhere else. But…
I'd be interested to hear how homelessness can be meaningfully addressed in a humane way by the federal government (especially if it is constitutional).
"Houston, the fourth-most-populous city in the nation, has cut its homeless population in half since 2011, in part by creating more housing for them."
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> suddenly we get very "every person for themselves" the second homelessness has a price tag. A confounding factor involved here is that many government strategies for dealing with the homeless are endless money pits without noticeable results. I think a lot of people would be more comfortable with their tax dollars going to that purpose if they didn't feel like nothing was actually happening from it.
> endless money pits The reason they are money pits is because they aren't something that will be solved by a city or even a state. Any attempt to solve the problem locally in a "humane" way has a high risk of just attracting more folks in the same circumstance to the area. The most effective way for a city or state to "solve" the local homeless problem is to simply pay for one-way bus tickets to somewhere else. But…
This is just provably false. Utah solved it's homelessness problem by just giving people homes. And it was pretty effective.
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Noah Smith's perspective on the necessity of a federal approach to homelessness: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-05-21/ending... Key graf: > About 3.5 million Americans will experience homelessness at some point in time, but only about a half-million are homeless at any given time, and roughly 87,000 of these are chronically homeless. By some estimates, housing a homeless person and providing them wit…
How federal involvement will help? Article doesn't detail what powers exactly federal govt possesses that would help, aside from moving spending from local to fed level. I'd also argue, that having feds in this business would even worsen the situation: now locals could be taken completely out of the loop for decisions like where to place shelters. Like, "oh you don't like shelter in this neighborhood? take a walk - i…
homelessness is the societal manifestation of the lower end of the bell curve. period. anyone who's interacted with homeless people knows this. yes there are exceptions, and no they do not make up the bulk of the distribution. putting your hand in the sand and blaming "slow wage growth" or some other secondary factor instead of pointing out the obvious is a disservice to those people. and before you call me harsh, kn…
You are spot on. It's unpopular to talk about this, but it's absolutely true. 90% of homeless people are on the low end of the IQ spectrum, some with other mental issues to boot. Low IQ is strongly correlated with poor self control and an inability to delay gratification. You couple that with a lack of decently paid low-skill work in America (thanks Globalism!) and these people can't survive any longer. They simply d…
A big part of the problem is the use of Revenue Management Software to set prices. This obviously ends up working like a cartel. I note that: -Even when nation wide vacancies were at their highest in 30 years, rental price rose. -Even as home prices plummeted, rental price rose. -Rent has risen 30% _nation_ wide just since 2013 so zoning an limits on building can't be the main cause. https://www.census.gov/housing/hv…
I've never heard of Revenue Management Software. What effect does it have exactly? If you own some apartments, wouldn't you just check the local advertised prices and set your prices similarly, possibly also using whatever your social network of landlords can tell you?
I've watched my own software used to raise my rents often. The system works very well and makes landlords lots of money, but it is incredibly simple once you have the data.
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There's some merit to this but I'd say it's still a little off the mark. Homelessness is a condition, how people got there is one thing, the main tools to "fix it" are fairly straightforward: give people housing. Dealing with everything else (mental health issues, drug addiction, etc.) can be dealt with separately, and will be vastly easier without having the fundamental problem of homelessness.
how people got there is one thing, the main tools to "fix it" are fairly straightforward: give people housing The solution sounds straightforward, the path to get there looks like a Gordian knot. How do you pay for it? How do you get that funding source to go along with your plans to pay for it? Etc.
You speak like this is something nobody's ever done before, but it's been done, repeatedly and often throughout the world and even in America.