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If your SO or child got sick, and drove up multiple 6-figures, and you had to mortgage everything, and when they finally died, and the bank took your house, you
by gremlinsinc 4y ago
If your SO or child got sick, and drove up multiple 6-figures, and you had to mortgage everything, and when they finally died, and the bank took your house, you hit despairing times, regardless of if it drives you to depression, drink, drugs, etc -- you couldn't cope, executive function went out the window and you ended up on the street.
Would you A. stick around, or B. Go some place foreign, say you already live in the cheapest part of America, so your options are go expat, maybe India, or Romania, or someplace with cheaper cost of living, but how do you afford to get there? What of other family, friends, etc? There's lots of things that tie people to a certain area.
My house isn't just my home, my entire community, city, etc is. Even being homeless, they could still consider where they do live to be their 'home', so why should they, or would they move?
- proc0 4y agoIf you can't afford even the cheapest housing in America, then housing isn't the problem, right? And if someone can't afford a bus ticket (or even come up with the money) chances are they need a lot more help and it's also not about housing. The point is how can it be housing when the rational thing to do is to relocate, and if you can't even do that, then you need way more help and it's not just housing. The real solutions are different for each individual, since it has to do with keeping a job and being able to pay rent. Affordable housing is only a tangential problem at best.