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> People in poverty have to pay for housing. No, they don't have to. That's a decision our society has made, and in my opinion it was a horribly evil one.
by MangoToupe 1y ago
> People in poverty have to pay for housing.
No, they don't have to. That's a decision our society has made, and in my opinion it was a horribly evil one.
- spankalee 1y agoEven if the government is paying for housing for them, cheaper housing means that the government can pay for more people's housing. Building housing reduces the price of housing...
- MangoToupe 1y ago> cheaper housing means that the government can pay for more people's housing. Which we will never do, because it depresses property values. Look "abundance" bullshit would make sense in a continuum of housing policy. But by itself we're just doubling-down on reinforcing homelessness as an american institution.