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Every city, especially those on the west coast, has been attacked by a manipulative cabal of real estate developers. The tactic is to scream about the homeless
by xrd 3y ago
Every city, especially those on the west coast, has been attacked by a manipulative cabal of real estate developers. The tactic is to scream about the homeless and crime, in an effort to increase policing and find long term tax breaks. It's a cycle that plays out over and over, decade after decade.
In Portland, for example, where the shrieks have been amplified by right wing media and out of state lobbying, there has been a nationally reported attack that has sold many subscriptions to the NYT. Just five years ago Portland was used to sell a different subscription for post-Portlandia fans.
When policing returns to normal, and when there is enough public sentiment to spend more on police and create more prisons, the problem will be "solved." Meaning we can go back to keeping the poors away from the tourist and wealthy neighborhoods and in prison if they don't comply.
It works in all the southern states. Those states all have police that rule with an iron fist and prison rates at 2-3x or even 4x the "liberal" states. Just sprinkle in a bit of prayer on top and you've got the solution to all this. I'm in West Palm Beach now, where there are no homeless, just a bunch of people living in tents across the water from Mar-a-lago who have been docile enough to avoid the police here, keeping all the the snow birds safe.
- google234123 3y agoWhy does it matter that some people shriek? These places have been controlled for decades with supermajorities by people that share your beliefs. I think the results speak for themselves. We need rules for society and if you don’t follow them you should be punished. It’s really that simple.
- drekk 3y agoIt's really unfortunate to see the same tribal shit-flinging on HN. Both parties are wings of the same bird. They work in the interest of their donor base, not their constituents. Commodifying housing and criminalizing homelessness is exactly that. Putting "your people" in charge won't change that. > But the poor person does not exist as an inescapable fact of destiny. His or her existence is not politically neutral, and it is not ethically innocent. The poor are a by-product of the system in which we live and for which we are responsible. They are marginalized by our social and cultural world. They are the oppressed, exploited proletariat, robbed of the fruit of their labor and despoiled of their humanity. Hence the poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order. - Gustavo Gutiérrez
- Zigurd 3y ago8 of 10 states with the highest crime are southern red states with thug cops and bad education. Pray it away?
- nonethewiser 3y agoPeople might disagree on what we should do about the Tenderloin but everyone agrees its a problem.
- alexsereno 3y agoWhat really surprises me in west palm are just how many of the housing communities post signage about being 55+, soooo much of the housing restricted by age. Sure, it’s famous for being a retirement community but I’m just so surprised it’s legal to limit the housing stock by age.
- paulddraper 3y agoMany communities in my home state Florida were 55+. All ends of the spectrum...condos and trailer parks. The community wants a quiet environment. It's enabled by the fact that federal discrimination law explicitly allows "one-sided" discrimination by age. Not for any other classes (race, sex, etc)