4 ms·
Adding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.
by 7e 4y ago
Adding more housing is like adding more highways. It just replicates the problem.
- fnordpiglet 4y agoWhich problem? Of humans that aren’t homeless?
- postalrat 4y agoIn the USA we have enough space to build over 100 times more houses than we have now. Much of that land is very cheap. Why don't you build some houses and be part of the solution?
- brianwawok 4y agoYou can put up a tent in my back yard if you want.
- asdfman123 4y agoWe should build more houses for, say, people working in the LA shipping industry in rural Minnesota. Miles of empty land!
- fnordpiglet 4y agoTrue. We should house the ER nurses for LA in Death Valley. The line cooks at the Jack N the Box down the street can live in the Olympic mountains and the garbage collectors in NYC in the bad lands of South Dakota. Good plan!
- postalrat 4y agoWhat's your plan? Wait for someone else lose a bunch of money for the greater good?
- fnordpiglet 4y agoBuild housing instead of office buildings.
- postalrat 3y agoAnd charge crazy rents prices because it cost so much to build?
- tutorialmanager 4y agoPlenty of unemployed section 8 tenants will spend the next 40-50 years living in the same Los Angeles rent-controlled apartment. It's not necessary to have the productive members of society drive a long commute when the unemployed are living near jobs. The notion that poor people (especially the unemployed) have the "right" to live in any neighborhood (even the most desirable) is crazy. Plenty of seniors living only on social security move out of California to a cost of living they can afford. Others cobble together a basket of benefits like Section 8 or low income housing lottery, disability payments (spurious), free health care, subsidized utilities, and snap. They end up with the same consumption level as your nurse or line cook without any job. I'ts not easy to get on all these benefit programs. It takes a combination of luck and tenacity. The idea that LA could just pay it's poor people to live in Adelanto wouldn't work. This needs to happen at a state or federal level.