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> The tenants he ushered outside each day into their first moments of homelessness were often inconsolable, or defiant, or suicidal, or mentally ill, or violent

> The tenants he ushered outside each day into their first moments of homelessness were often inconsolable, or defiant, or suicidal, or mentally ill, or violent and aggressive, but Lennie was calm. “You have to take your own emotions out of it,” he’d told colleagues during one national training. “It’s our job to carry out the court order.” > Lennie had done more than 300 evictions since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s federal moratorium expired in early August It's super convenient for our corporate overlords that they can count on such psychopaths to execute orders nazi-style without even a glipse of empathy. The question is how can we as a society find any such situation acceptable? The empty dwellings outnumber homeless people at least two to one (probably more) and yet a State religion/delirium called private property forces people to be homeless. Think you're squashing bugs hard to make a living when you review your git log? This person squashes about 15 "bugs" (that's us) a day for the profit of housing speculators/mafia. Such efficiency taken in the wrong direction: only police abolition can lead to better justice on this planet.

curryst 5y ago
I'd get behind that, but it won't happen at this point. I would like to see abolishment of speculative property ownership. You either use it, or it gets given to someone else. You can't hold it and wait for the price to go up. You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it. I find it absurd that people are born and indoctrinated to believe that because someone else says they own this bit of land that they've never used, no one else can use it. People are literally born homeless. Their parents may have a home, and they may let their children use it, but they are born without anywhere they can legally be without someone else's permission.
- southerntofu 5y ago
  > You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it. Sounds like a reasonable policy, yet there's a loophole. What would prevent owners from trading on paper their goods so that they can remain empty under a different name? Or from lending a huge space to a single person so that the space isn't technically empty although it could house 10-100 times as many people? > People are literally born homeless. Love that argument. I've never seen it that way before, but that makes perfect sense!

curryst 5y ago

I'd get behind that, but it won't happen at this point. I would like to see abolishment of speculative property ownership. You either use it, or it gets given to someone else. You can't hold it and wait for the price to go up. You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it. I find it absurd that people are born and indoctrinated to believe that because someone else says they own this bit of land that they've never used, no one else can use it. People are literally born homeless. Their parents may have a home, and they may let their children use it, but they are born without anywhere they can legally be without someone else's permission.

southerntofu 5y ago
> You get a year, maybe two, and then it becomes public domain to anyone that will use it. Sounds like a reasonable policy, yet there's a loophole. What would prevent owners from trading on paper their goods so that they can remain empty under a different name? Or from lending a huge space to a single person so that the space isn't technically empty although it could house 10-100 times as many people? > People are literally born homeless. Love that argument. I've never seen it that way before, but that makes perfect sense!