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What about the tenants? Why are people so focused on increasing house prices? No one wants food prices to be high or internet prices to be high. In a small tow
by dimva 12y ago
What about the tenants? Why are people so focused on increasing house prices? No one wants food prices to be high or internet prices to be high.
In a small town that's shrinking rapidly, the people who live on the margins in maybe-condemned houses probably can't afford anything better. If you demolish houses that people are living in and raise housing costs, where are those people going to live?
I can see the justification for demolishing abandoned houses, but demolishing houses that people are living in seems evil.
- LordKano 12y agoThe goal is to push those people into government/subsidized housing. I an understand the desire, in theory. In theory, it's better to live in a government housing project that is kept up to minimal health and safety standards. In practice, it varies on a case by case basis. Sometimes, that's exactly what is needed. It is certainly better to live in a maintained government housing project than to live in a private crap hole with black mold, roaches and rodents but it's not better if the government housing project also has roaches, rodents, mold and crack dealers. It's difficult to convince people to spend money on such things unless you can first convince them that there is an emergency need to do so. Destroying the low cost housing while producing a glut of people who need low cost housing will create that emergency.