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It's hard data but his rhetorical device of saying homelessness is 100% related to housing is hardly interesting. How practical is it to write off 20-30% of a c
by detourdog 3y ago
It's hard data but his rhetorical device of saying homelessness is 100% related to housing is hardly interesting. How practical is it to write off 20-30% of a cause?
There are houses everywhere that are below market rates. They may not be glamorous but they are homes.
No doubt we have problems. The accessibility, safety, and energy efficiency gains are a positive.
I found the article intellectually lazy and I must be in a real foul mood to even be commenting.
- davidw 3y ago> his rhetorical device of saying homelessness is 100% related to housing It's right there at the very beginning of the article: "Even if drugs, mental illness, etc. do exacerbate homelessness to some extent" No one is saying it's not a complex problem with many things going on, but a lot of people refuse to acknowledge that the price of housing is a primary driver of homelessness.
- detourdog 3y agoThe repetition of the mantra that 100% of homelessness is lack of having a home must have washed it out of my brain. The people not in the impaired category can make different decisions and have a home. I can't live in Manhattan becuase I think I need at least $10,000,000. I guess I will live somewhere that makes more sense. A big driver I see is the American culture of avoiding intergenerational living.