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> I don’t expect my government to take care of me, because it couldn’t care less, and I’ve been totally screwed by broken government in the past. Depending on
by leppr 6y ago
> I don’t expect my government to take care of me, because it couldn’t care less, and I’ve been totally screwed by broken government in the past.
Depending on where you live and how well paid you are, 60% to 20% of your work's output goes into your government's pockets. Furthermore, the government is usually also in charge of zoning and building restrictions, thus directly responsible for homelessness (There are plenty of extremely poor countries where homelessness is virtually nonexistent. What makes people homeless is police tearing down illegal houses, not poverty).
Those are the very simple reasons people rightfully expect their government to provide them with free housing.
- ClumsyPilot 6y ago> "What makes people homeless is police tearing down illegal houses, not poverty" This is a very good point, and i never see it mentioned - people will generally create their own housing out of whatever they have avaliable. These take the forms of refugee camps and slums, but they can and sometimes do evolve to something respectable over time - after all thats how housing began at the dawn of civilisation. Now if the person's right to create his own shelter and solve his own problem has been taken away, then a substitute must be provided. Every now and then we get people who make a mudhut or a tree house www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7826923/amp/Man-fights-live-inside-self-built-tree-house-council-bans-bushfire-risk.html