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Don't give them money, give them houses. Homeless person + stable place to live = ~0 homeless. Your retort might be, well if we did that, then people would beco
by jadedhacker 9y ago
Don't give them money, give them houses. Homeless person + stable place to live = ~0 homeless. Your retort might be, well if we did that, then people would become homeless intentionally and we'd have to give them a house.
Well... yea, that's the idea. Without rent, the average family's budget would increase by probably > 25-30%. We could set up schemes to rotate good residences to people that need them (e.g. families with kids get 8 yr tenures near schools). For houses without long waitlists, people can trade at will. Decommodifying that sector of the market would do a world of good.
- AstralStorm 9y agoGood luck with implementing this policy. The problem typically was that with positive birth rates development was way behind demand. Additionally where do you want to build those houses and how do you want to prevent these areas from becoming ghettos?
- jadedhacker 9y agoBirth rates are slowing. Build the houses all over the city so you don't have concentrated poverty. If you have too much poverty in your city, then it's time to start redistributing wealth more generally.