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It's not about housing. They can leave the west coast and live someplace cheaper.

• vore 3y ago
  But... why? Why can't we also build more affordable housing as well instead of just making rich people enclaves? If you're forcing all the low income people to live in one place, that is clearly not good for class mobility at all.
  • SamReidHughes 3y ago
    You're talking about people who work -- the homeless, well, the chronically homeless, are people who don't work.
    • defrost 3y ago
      Nationally (for the USofA), About 53 percent of the sheltered homeless had formal labor market earnings in the year they were observed as homeless, and the authors’ find that 40.4 percent of the unsheltered population had at least some formal employment in the year they were observed as homeless. ( any year twixt 2011 – 2018 ) This finding contrasts with stereotypes of people experiencing homelessness as too lazy to work or incapable of doing so. https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/learning-about-homelessness-using-linked-survey-and-administrative-data/ https://bfi.uchicago.edu/insight/research-summary/learning-a...
      • SamReidHughes 3y ago
        Hence my original post...
    • vore 3y ago
      You can work as hard as you want in a minimum wage job and still not be able to make rent in places with low housing supply.