I’d like to live in a world where you don’t have to make laws pertaining to who can and cannot own a home but damn I’ll support legislation banning corporations buying up all the homes if that what it takes.
All I want is to be able to buy my own space to call mine and I’d like to do it on a “reasonable” salary. Its not much of an ask. You don’t have to pay me more if you charge less for goods and services but instead it’s a steady drum beat of keeping wages down and prices high because for a select group the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. You can have it that way but your safety is not guaranteed when the shooting starts. Either do what’s right for the greater good or shit will go sideways eventually. At this point I’m so fed up I don’t care which way it goes, but I prefer the carrot to the stick.
Keep in mind this is related to a case in Oregon. Rather open and liberal state.
There are laws restricting homeless behaviors. Like encampments which can be havens for drugs, crime and just insanitary conditions. Or just loitering in front of businesses and homes driving people away.
Oregon could do more about homelessness. More outreach, more shelters, more affordable housing. But evidently not interested. Kind of like my hometown (mostly) of Chicago which just failed to pass a large measure to fund just those things for homeless. Even a very liberal, progressive city such as Chicago said “no”.
Both of these things are ineffectual. Government just needs to build homes. Alternately, the government needs to decide how many homes need to be built and create policies that will cause it to happen. But we create policies deliberately designed to prevent enough housing from being built and then pretend like the problem is corporations hoarding homes.
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I’d like to live in a world where you don’t have to make laws pertaining to who can and cannot own a home but damn I’ll support legislation banning corporations buying up all the homes if that what it takes.
All I want is to be able to buy my own space to call mine and I’d like to do it on a “reasonable” salary. Its not much of an ask. You don’t have to pay me more if you charge less for goods and services but instead it’s a steady drum beat of keeping wages down and prices high because for a select group the needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many. You can have it that way but your safety is not guaranteed when the shooting starts. Either do what’s right for the greater good or shit will go sideways eventually. At this point I’m so fed up I don’t care which way it goes, but I prefer the carrot to the stick.
Keep in mind this is related to a case in Oregon. Rather open and liberal state.
There are laws restricting homeless behaviors. Like encampments which can be havens for drugs, crime and just insanitary conditions. Or just loitering in front of businesses and homes driving people away.
Oregon could do more about homelessness. More outreach, more shelters, more affordable housing. But evidently not interested. Kind of like my hometown (mostly) of Chicago which just failed to pass a large measure to fund just those things for homeless. Even a very liberal, progressive city such as Chicago said “no”.
We also make it [illegal to build affordable homes.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Flsg_mzG-M)
Both of these things are ineffectual. Government just needs to build homes. Alternately, the government needs to decide how many homes need to be built and create policies that will cause it to happen. But we create policies deliberately designed to prevent enough housing from being built and then pretend like the problem is corporations hoarding homes.