111 sats \ 3 replies \ @leo 8 Aug \ on: Real estate market facing a major correction? econ
Not sure how much you can blame monetary policy for that. In most North-American towns it's literally illegal to build apartment buildings
Doesn't it burn you up when you hear politicians talk about the problem of homelessness in the US and never mention how expense and sometimes impossible it is to build housing. Some are dumb but I think most just do not care.
It is obvious if you do some reading that homelessness is high due to the cost and availability of housing. Building codes and zoning laws raise the floor of the cheapest housing. Then you couple this with state licensing laws, welfare, and the minimum wage and you end up with people that can't get jobs and can't afford to live in the type of housing "society" deems acceptable. So they end up living on the streets. Not to mention the failure of state run mental health and drug addiction services.
The world we have is the fault of the state and those that run it. And we deserve what we get because we have left these things up to sociopaths to figure out for us. And those sociopaths do not care to figure out the root causes. They only care about power and making promises they can't keep.
Its not rocket science why we have these issues. I'm no genius. They will spend millions on doing another "study" to figure out the problems. The whole thing is absurd.
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homelessness is kind of a bad term because the people who are homeless arent just without a home. people have also tried to give homeless people homes but it doesn't really work. There are deeper causes but maybe that goes without saying.
i thought about how to reduce homelessness and i think you gotta round them up and throw them in shallow water every other day. At least they will be clean, but at some point, someone is going to be like ok im going to try live better. Its worth a try.
Take for example california which is still a touristy place, but with a lot of homeless ppl now! So they could make an event out of throwing homeless people into the shallow part of the ocean, make it a tourist attraction. There could even be bets on who makes it out of the water first. There should be life guards to help but only in most extreme case. Someone acting out should not get helped right away. Anyway this will kind of deal with two problems at once. It creates a tourist attraction and it also reduces homelessness.
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