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Many politicians and news media talk about it as if it’s an intrinsic quality, and also there are even “affordable” housing programs where affordable takes on s
by epicureanideal 4y ago
Many politicians and news media talk about it as if it’s an intrinsic quality, and also there are even “affordable” housing programs where affordable takes on special meanings that imply subsidies and set asides and so on. So whereas previously it was a neutral description it’s becoming a very particular thing.
- Vt71fcAqt7 4y agoIt's the same trick as "access to healthcare" as if healthcare is just the ability to walk into a hospital. (Now, strictly speaking, one (less common) definition of access is "freedom or ability to obtain or make use of something" but the connotation intented is really "permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, or pass to and from a place or to approach or communicate with a person or thing"[0] because in the former "access" could be dropped entierly in sentences like "they don't have access to healthcare" to simply "they don't have healthcare." So it is clearly being used to create a certain (false) connotation) [0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/access https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/access