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hypothetical public program: "We notice you haven't been able to fill this unit for 6 months. We're going to give you market rate based on the neighborhood and
by abeppu 5y ago
hypothetical public program: "We notice you haven't been able to fill this unit for 6 months. We're going to give you market rate based on the neighborhood and square footage, for this person to live here."
property owner: "But what about my right to discriminate of people I don't like the look of?"
> The majority of these properties will end up ruined.
Show me the ruined apartments from a program that tried this. I'm skeptical because there are supportive housing programs, and the complaint I normally hear is that they don't have nearly enough capacity to meet the real need, not that once residents get placed they "ruin" their units.
> Or the government could build their own housing to use for this purpose. I can tell you which idea would be more popular with voters.
And show me the many many public housing projects we've built because public housing is so popular. In SF, neighborhoods have a pretty consistent track record of fighting back against any housing that doesn't increase their comps. Note that mostly there aren't actually public housing projects for them to push back against, but rather projects from non-profits like TNDC or Mission Housing.
- simonsarris 5y ago> Show me the ruined apartments from a program that tried this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green_Homes
- Gigachad 5y agoThis looks like a nightmare. The problem is if you gather all of the lowest people in one building, it becomes hell on earth. But if you disperse them, you have a building full of decent people and one person who writes tags on the hallways and leaves trash around. So the rest of the building rightfully wants that one individual kicked out and you end up at homelessness again. You also have no leverage against these people. For normal people you can threaten them with fines, etc. But for some people, they have nothing to lose and do not care about any punishment you apply.
- pandaman 5y agoYeah, about that, we've noticed that in your household there are 160 square feet of area available per person currently on the lease and the People's Housing Commission established through Science that no person needs more than 50 square feet to live. Make sure you do not waste living space by getting more roommates, if you are unable to find more roommates in 6 months time the PHC is going to give you roommates.