San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
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Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#2> the former accountant ended up outdoors after a divorce and a brain tumor.
Sounds like our current resource allocation system here in the US is working great! Seems like a totally sensible reason for a human being to be forced to live without basic shelter. They obviously have no useful skills to provide society so let's just throw them away. What a time to be alive!
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#3> the former accountant ended up outdoors after a divorce and a brain tumor. Sounds like our current resource allocation system here in the US is working great! Seems like a totally sensible reason for a human being to be forced to live without basic shelter. They obviously have no useful skills to provide society so let's just throw them away. What a time to be alive!
It is truly sad that in by far the richest country in the world, and ostensibly the best, millions of people are living this way.
Why on earth Americans are not fixing America, I have no idea.
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#4> the former accountant ended up outdoors after a divorce and a brain tumor. Sounds like our current resource allocation system here in the US is working great! Seems like a totally sensible reason for a human being to be forced to live without basic shelter. They obviously have no useful skills to provide society so let's just throw them away. What a time to be alive!
It is truly sad that in by far the richest country in the world, and ostensibly the best, millions of people are living this way. Why on earth Americans are not fixing America, I have no idea.
You are richer when you do not squander the wealth into social programs. /s
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#5> the former accountant ended up outdoors after a divorce and a brain tumor. Sounds like our current resource allocation system here in the US is working great! Seems like a totally sensible reason for a human being to be forced to live without basic shelter. They obviously have no useful skills to provide society so let's just throw them away. What a time to be alive!
It is truly sad that in by far the richest country in the world, and ostensibly the best, millions of people are living this way. Why on earth Americans are not fixing America, I have no idea.
As a Brit and a left leaning type, it baffles me to see America. From talking to friends who live there (I won't pretend I know fully) but it seems between income, state and property taxes you guys pay a lot. Add in health care and it seems you pay in line with or above many European countries. Yet with your society's wealth there seems a resistance to supporting your own people, and almost actively seeking to add to the poverty through the prison and court system. It seems crazy, when getting these people up and productive, would not only be the moral (Christian?) thing to do, but would ultimately also add to the wealth of the nation.
Is it because in America who are 'your own people'?
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#6Seattle has already been doing this for at least a year.
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is truly sad that in by far the richest country in the world, and ostensibly the best, millions of people are living this way. Why on earth Americans are not fixing America, I have no idea.
As a Brit and a left leaning type, it baffles me to see America. From talking to friends who live there (I won't pretend I know fully) but it seems between income, state and property taxes you guys pay a lot. Add in health care and it seems you pay in line with or above many European countries. Yet with your society's wealth there seems a resistance to supporting your own people, and almost actively seeking to add to…
As a fellow left leaning Brit the pull yourself up by the bootstraps thing always seemed strange, sometimes people just don't have the bootstraps to start with!
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#8Are the building codes really so restrictive as to prevent building housing for homeless people without ignoring them?
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#9Are the building codes really so restrictive as to prevent building housing for homeless people without ignoring them?
Almost anywhere in the US has very strict building codes.
Re: San Jose: New law would make city first to allow “tiny homes” for homeless
#10Are the building codes really so restrictive as to prevent building housing for homeless people without ignoring them?
Yes. That's largely why they exist. Zoning codes were often created with an explicit goal of keeping poor/black people out of rich/white neighborhoods.
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