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Currently the poor are homeless or enduring multi-hour mega-commutes or stuffing a bunch of people into a single studio apartment. Well-located "barely livable
by bonniemuffin 7y ago
Currently the poor are homeless or enduring multi-hour mega-commutes or stuffing a bunch of people into a single studio apartment. Well-located "barely livable wage slave pods" would be a huge improvement for a lot of people. I agree that the race to the bottom effect is a problem, but I think even the worst-case scenario would still be better than our existing housing situation.
- generalpass 7y agoIndeed, it is only a problem in the sense that it is not a perfect solution.
- wnissen 7y agoCorrect. A fire in a nice, completely unremarkable neighborhood about 40 miles east of San Francisco destroyed 4 units and made 35 people homeless. Almost 9 people to a home. And this is a solid 3-hour roundtrip commute from San Francisco or Mountain View. "Dickensian" is the word for it. Not literally, perhaps, because the housing situation in Dickens's time was even worse, but there is human misery on a broad scale. https://www.independentnews.com/news/chestnut-street-fire-in-livermore/article_c8f2e59c-e2e0-11e8-b09c-731ef788e7f9.html https://www.independentnews.com/news/chestnut-street-fire-in...