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The problem with this is that the taglines enforce a theme even when the circumstances change. Your healthy community is experiencing homelessness and a housin

The problem with this is that the taglines enforce a theme even when the circumstances change. Your healthy community is experiencing homelessness and a housing affordability problem along with every "themed" community around you. Does it make sense to stick with the original theme? No. It doesn't. The problem here is that by owning property you buy into that theme. Any divergence from that theme is harmful to what you bought. The only way forward is eminent domain. But at the scale of current property ownership there's going to be huge backlash from property owners. If people who don't own property organize in numbers that dwarf the total amount of property owners then that could generate enough conflict towards social change. But that level of organization won't happen until the desperateness hits a sort of criticality. We're still far from that so I'm safe. But make no mistake I know the moral action that we must take, and me sitting on my property is not it.

AlgorithmicTime 4y ago
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mcguire 4y ago
As AlgorithmicTime (now dead) wrote, American home ownership rates peaked in 2004 at 69%, fell to 64% in 2016, and are back up to 66%. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rate-in-the-us-since-2003/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat...) In California, it's about 56%. You gave to get San Francisco proper to get a minority and then it's still 38% (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocountycalifornia,sanfranciscocitycalifornia,CA/HSG445221#HSG445221 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocou...)
- kilgnad 4y ago
  You have to look at age and location. If you characterize the whole US you're including people who are much older and people who live away from very urban areas. Among older people and in small towns and villages the housing problems, are of course, much milder.

AlgorithmicTime 4y ago

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mcguire 4y ago

As AlgorithmicTime (now dead) wrote, American home ownership rates peaked in 2004 at 69%, fell to 64% in 2016, and are back up to 66%. (https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rate-in-the-us-since-2003/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/184902/homeownership-rat...) In California, it's about 56%. You gave to get San Francisco proper to get a minority and then it's still 38% (https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocountycalifornia,sanfranciscocitycalifornia,CA/HSG445221#HSG445221 https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/sanfranciscocou...)

kilgnad 4y ago
You have to look at age and location. If you characterize the whole US you're including people who are much older and people who live away from very urban areas. Among older people and in small towns and villages the housing problems, are of course, much milder.