If we didn't dedicate so much land and building space to cars and parking, people wouldn't have to live in cars and parking lots.
California's hidden homeless: workers living in cars due to property prices
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#12Serious question not addressed in the article: Why don't they move out of California?
That might be a solution for them , but it is not a solution for us and our society. If the cost-of-living-adjusted wages aren't high enough to give the providers of such essential services housing, then that's a problem we need to fix regardless.
Cost of living wage is a bit of a misnomer
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#13Serious question not addressed in the article: Why don't they move out of California?
Teaching credentials don’t always transfer across state lines, and oftentimes there’s a requirement to take a course or obtain another certification to teach in a different state, both of which require them to pay more money.
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#14How did the labor and housing markets get so dramatically out of sync?
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#15'Teachers, chefs, nurses and other middle class workers living in cars...' Shame they couldn't find any for the body of the article?
Because it's the daily mail...[0]
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#16If we didn't dedicate so much land and building space to cars and parking, people wouldn't have to live in cars and parking lots.
And allow for more density in general.
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#17The original article was written for the LA Times:
http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-lopez-safe-pa...
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#18I had a friend who decided to live in his Ford Explorer in San Diego rather than pay rent....
Then he flipped his Explorer on the freeway going like 70 mph. He survived unscratched but his SUV was totaled.
Fortunately for him, he was able to move in with his mom and stepdad (who he hated) but if he was anybody else and he didn't have family in the area he would have been completely homeless...
Re: California's hidden homeless: workers living in cars due to property prices
#19How did the labor and housing markets get so dramatically out of sync?
https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/shoag/files/why_has_region...
Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?
>The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across states and in population flows to wealthy places. These changes coincide with (1) an increase in housing prices in productive areas, (2) a divergence in the skill-specific returns to living in those places, and (3) a redirection of unskilled migration away from productive places. We develop a model in which rising housing prices in wealthy areas deter unskilled migration and slow income convergence. Using a new panel measure of housing supply regulations, we demonstrate the importance of this channel in the data. Income convergence continues in less-regulated places, while it has mostly stopped in places with more regulation.
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#20I've come to the sad realization that Holywood/Silicon Valley liberal ideology is a significant enabler of inequality and wealth stratification.
They'd rather have people living out of cars and tents than being paid reasonable wages or having affordable housing.
Can't wait until their latest amendment passes[0] in California.
[0]https://ballotpedia.org/California_No_Taxes_After_Age_55_Ini...