https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-num...ets-1512595311
https://apnews.com/47662ad74baf4bb09...ess-population
But before Zipster chimes in with some anti-Trump rhetoric, I'd like to point out that the East Coast actually decreased their homelessness rates, while flyover country maintained a level number. The increases are entirely on the west coast, suggesting that something is very, very wrong with their liberal policies.
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From the report:
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City officials, homeless advocates and those living on the streets point to a main culprit: the region’s booming economy .
Rents have soared beyond affordability for many lower-wage workers who until just a just few years ago could typically find a place to stay. Now, even a temporary setback can be enough to leave them out on the streets.
Liberal policies, open borders zealots and the Silicon Valley CEO's that don't give a damn about investing in their communities or hiring the people in the communities for which they are located. Importing foreign slave labor is their number one priority so no surprise they do not give a damn about homeless Americans.Quote:
Originally Posted by angelatc
It's a government caused crisis, a free market would have prevented it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
What would a free-market solution to homelessness be? People are homeless for different reasons. Some lost their jobs or faced another tragedy in their lives. Some are mentally ill. Some are addicted to drugs or alcohol. Can you find a home for everybody?Quote:
Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
Don't move the goalposts, THIS crisis as opposed to all homelessness is the subject.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
A free market would have allowed many more homes to be built and kept rents/purchase costs down.
There are many other ways that liberal government contributes to the problem as well.
So there is lots of space in Los Angeles where they can build enough homes for everybody who wants one. We just need to let them be built.Quote:
Originally Posted by Swordsmyth
West Coast.Quote:
Originally Posted by angelatc
Best weather, best tweak, best welfare.
Dumb things liberals say.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
Specifically, the laws against building up has created a housing shortage as well as a traffic nightmare.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
Here's an article about a different problem: bureaucrats.
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Despite soaring demand for housing in the Bay Area, the city hasn’t approved any new development projects in more than five years.
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....many of those local governments have made it even more difficult to build new housing.
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More than two-thirds of California’s coastal communities have adopted measures — such as caps on population or housing growth, or building height limits — aimed at limiting residential development,
I dont,know about the east coast, but over here there are a shitload of people who would rather live in homeless camps and panhandle then work to support themselves.
And the liberal idiots around here give them enough that they can do it.
Well, thank goodness the L.A. government is returning the tiny homes, built by the free market and caring individuals, they confiscated after being excoriated for it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...421-story.html
Perhaps some just got tired of beating their heads against a wall due to government licensing, taxing, ordinancing and legislating them into a situation where they just said "fuck it, In the "Land of the Free" I have more freedom living in the shadows than I do living a "normal" life?"Quote:
Originally Posted by Origanalist
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoningQuote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
I know plenty of those, but they aren't standing on corners with a "please help me" sign not willing to work for anything at all. It's a epidemic around here. I've seen them fight for exclusive rights to the best off ramps.Quote:
Originally Posted by phill4paul
Homelessness is way under-reported! Multi-genrational households skyrocketing. Too many addicts bunking with friends. Lot of people with outstanding warrants but can't get arrested cuz the Police can't find them.
Personally I do not believe that . I doubt these homeless are employed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
Thats how I see it .Quote:
Originally Posted by Origanalist
Probably little that can be done for the mentally ill . The other major disease is laziness . No help should be given for that .Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
This^^^^Quote:
Originally Posted by oyarde
The class warfare won't stop until we are all dependent on the state. The government terrorists hate us because we are free. These are the victims of corporate welfare, debt monetization and our never-ending war spending.
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Originally Posted by The Northbreather
It IS easier to be homeless where you don't have to worry much about the weather.
The free market solution to homelessness and poverty is to have ways for poor people to accumulate wealth through property ownership. That will never happen until property owners are truly free to do what they want with what they own. Property values grow over time, and even a tiny lot would be worth more in a year or so.
Should we then offer property for free to homeless people? If they are poor, how do they acquire property? If the value of property always goes up, don't you reach a point where not everybody can afford it?Quote:
Originally Posted by euphemia
Yup, this.Quote:
Originally Posted by phill4paul
Why kill yourself supporting an entire system that hates you?
Zip, this isn't a good thread for ya. Alaska is right there on the top 10 list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
Zip, this isn't a good thread for ya. Alaska is right there on the top 10 list.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
Alaska was one of the declining states.Quote:
Originally Posted by angelatc
No. You don't give anything away. You allow people to purchase a very small unit of housing at a very low rate. I have suggested some options other places, but nobody seems to have any ideas how to do it. I think without the regulations and whatever, tiny 1/8th shares could be zoned for whatever people wanted to put there as long as they had a mailbox and lived there permanently. Means testing would be helpful so rich developers didn't price the poor out of the market. I think some empty schools could be converted and sold as units. The main thing is that they would have to be near transportation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zippyjuan
"A very low rate"- so government subsidized housing? If they are homeless, they are also most likely unemployed. How do they pay for any payments or upkeep on the property? They are trying to figure out where their next meal is coming from.Quote:
Originally Posted by euphemia
So below market prices. Many cities do have low income housing programs already.Quote:
Means testing would be helpful so rich developers didn't price the poor out of the market.
Homesteading doesn't work very well in large cities.
Getting a job and a place to live certainly help. They assume a person is also willing and able to change how they are living.