Giving housing to the homeless means we change the homeless into neighbours. And who the hell wants a poor person as a neighbour.
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They are being sarcastic.
I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
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Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are no leftists in the US. The people you are refering to a liberals, who are defacto identical to conservatives
Dean Preston is a self-described socialist. A socialist is not a conservative.
Well, but a self-described socialist might just not be a socialist.
Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#133Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#134Sry lack of new houses doesn't seem like a cause for homelessness. Of you can't afford a house in the big city, you move to a smaller one. The problem is lack of a working welfare infrastructure. People become homeless because they're unlucky and once they're down, it's almost impossible to get back up.. it's a failure of state at so many levels. Real estate development is the least of them
This kind of problem rarely has a single cause but housing costs put pressure on many of them. High housing costs mean people save less and are more vulnerable to other events cascading into homelessness. They also increase stress levels because people live further away from their jobs and spend more time and money commuting while being less able to care for their families, which can have generational impacts when older kids aren’t studying because they’re taking care of younger siblings while their parents work and commute. It also inflated prices for almost everything else because businesses are paying more for their space and have to pay their workers more, too.
That doesn’t mean that we don’t also need things like better support and easily-accessible government healthcare, but we have to recognize that these things are all connected. Salt Lake City somewhat famously found immediately housing people helps with mental/substance abuse issues simply because all of the other problems in life are more approachable when you’re not sleeping on the street, missing appointments, and having your essentials stolen.
Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder what could have happened in Dublin to use up loads of the available housing? Does anyone know?
Airbnb, free migrant housing, rampant unvetted immigration and a tech industry that pays more in comparison to other industries.
Ireland doesn't give free immigrant housing. They have processing centers where you can stay while your application is being processed. They are very bare bones accommodations and you only stay there for up to 14 days.
Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#136I live just outside Minneapolis. There's an absolute glut right now of largely unoccupied apartments that have sprung up in the last couple years anywhere there was an open lot and many places there wasn't - tearing down a number of historic buildings in the name of cheaply built wooden framed apartments. Well over 100 new buildings in the last five years within a 10 mile radius. Most of them cost more per month to live in than my monthly home payment. I frankly don't understand why someone who could afford to live in them would.
The homelessness problem is also visibly the worst it's been in my lifetime.
I'm genuinely doubtful the problem is lack of housing alone. The person curled up under the bridge, the person screaming on the corner, they need more than another apartment they still can't afford added to the world. That doesn't help them.
No matter how many of these luxury apartment buildings you build, these people can't afford the rent. The owners of the buildings would seemingly rather see them sit at quarter occupancy than lower rents, and it's kind of understandable.
We're drowning in unaffordable housing and people are still homeless.
Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#137I think anyone who has actually been hands on trying to improve the lives of the unhomed know that 1) it’s a gradient between “I get kicked out of x everyday and go back at night” and “I’m sleeping under a bridge” and 2) rarely is it the actual cost of the home that’s the problem. Often it’s mental health / substance abuse / lack of a support system. Heck I think there is enough movies/shows about how people fall through the cracks that if you really cared you could learn about the problems in a fun night at home watching Netflix.
So no hate to the author but this feels like pointless political posturing
Re: I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)
#138Giving housing to the homeless means we change the homeless into neighbours. And who the hell wants a poor person as a neighbour.
Different sources say 40 to 50% of homeless have substance abuse problems. A lot of people don't want addicts as neighbours.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder what could have happened in Dublin to use up loads of the available housing? Does anyone know?
I was told by a local while living there a major factor was Google and Meta (and others) buying out entire buildings to house their staff
The same is right now happening in Munich, and Bavaria's politicians are still against building more homes.
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
> rather that the press constantly criticizes tech Clearly we're consuming different types of media, because on my estimation tech gets let off fairly light relative to the damage we cause. As practitioners, we're not entitled to get angry about being criticised for the damage we cause at least until we've stopped it.
I’m not a big fan of online performative self-hate and classic elite-liberal virtue signaling, so maybe this article and these replies are not for me.
If I have to be a self-hater to be able to read an article that's critical of me and the industry I'm in, and not be offended by it, then I guess that makes me a self-hater.