I completely understand your point, and I agree with it. I just don't trust laissez-faire economics. We've got entrepreneurs trying to put SF techies into commu

I completely understand your point, and I agree with it. I just don't trust laissez-faire economics. We've got entrepreneurs trying to put SF techies into communal bunks. If that's how they're willing to treat engineers, how will they treat the poor and disabled? Then again, I also understand the historically bad examples of crime-filled government housing projects. I don't know how to convince Americans to do things the more European way. As someone born in the USSR and raised in a "commieblock" I see how housing like this is far better than living on the street. Many of the big block style apartments all over western Europe are quite decent. How much more pain before we have massive housing reform? Will we ever? I don't know. Neoliberalism is eating the country and we're in a deadlock. The pressure is continuing to build and build. I am very concerned about a collapse scenario, because the USA is awash with guns and the far right keeps gaining ground.