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By far the worst homelessness problems in the US are all in very blue cities, not red voting areas. It's not even a close comparison, all the worst cities in th
by adventured 3y ago
By far the worst homelessness problems in the US are all in very blue cities, not red voting areas. It's not even a close comparison, all the worst cities in the US for wealth inequality and homelessness are particularly blue. The dramatic intensity of poverty and murder that deeply blue cities have produced is terrifying, as is the fact that it has continued uninterrupted for so long. At some point someone should start asking some questions. San Francisco has been a microcosm of that severe dysfunction.
- bugglebeetle 3y ago…those questions are all answered by wealthy liberals profiting off real estate speculation at the expense of everything else. You can’t have a functioning society where someone’s right to make obscene returns on a single family home is privileged over people shitting and dying on the streets. When you do, you end up with the severe inequality and dysfunction of California’s cities. Trust me, I know. I live in one. But this trend is playing out all across America, red or blue. California just did a speed-run of the consequences of “fuck you, I got mine” by passing a suite of especially terrible laws in the 70s while being one of the world’s largest economies. Most red-voting areas are nowhere near as economically productive as California, so they haven’t (until recently) been able to draw the same level of speculative investment.