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Yeah... Everybody is kind-spirited until you start living in slums. What's a pity here that the media is doing victimbaiting to get some extra page views. Most
by tasubotadas 5y ago
Yeah... Everybody is kind-spirited until you start living in slums. What's a pity here that the media is doing victimbaiting to get some extra page views.
Most of the people do not want to have random and scruffy-looking shacks on side-walks while they are getting to work in the morning.
The local government is just enforcing that because that's the job they've been elected to do. That might be a hard pill to swallow for somebody who likes to pretend that they care about other people, but, most likely, that municipality will be reelected because most people support what they are doing.
- zarzavat 5y agoIf cities don't want slums to exist, they need to provide subsidised housing. Shelter is a basic human need, so either a city builds it or people will build their own.
- webinvest 5y agoNo, the city can just provide public land away from the city center where people are permitted to set up their own tents. Like in a fruit orchard or something. Budgets are very constrained to the amounts permitted by sales, property, and excise taxes with many voters not really wanting to increase the first two. In my city, the city has already closed down 3/4ths of the libraries due to budget constraints. The cost-benefit analysis of creating subsidized housing oftentimes just doesn’t pan out and there are better uses of city funds —- like on libraries.