- cross-posted to:
- urbanism@slrpnk.net
- cross-posted to:
- urbanism@slrpnk.net
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/12369426
the purpose of a system is what it does
It costs more than $10k a year per person to provide housing as pointed out in the cross posted thread.
Not if the government built and ran the homes. Public housing works, it just got it’s funding gutted by Reagan. And how can you put a price tag and cleaner and safer communities.
California is building housing at $1000/sqft, the city of San Francisco spends $100,000/year per homeless person
If it was somehow just as easy to build public housing, why wouldn’t they?
The tweet only talks about the cost of housing homeless people. Homeless people have other needs like mental and medical care. And $1000/sqft isn’t the norm and the tweet is generalizing about housing costs throughout the country, not the CA. You just seem dead set and making public housing seem untenable. And they don’t build public housing because it lowers rent for all renters. There’s no floor to housing so every renter can be implicitly threatened with the specter of complete destitution, holding them ransom for the ridiculous rents we have now.
Sure, but what about those who don’t WANT the housing provided and would rather park their RVs on busy roads making commuting dangerous for themselves and others. And before you say this doesn’t happen let me take some pictures of the highway on my way to work.
I would rather NOT criminalize the down and out, but when they put others in danger it’s a bit of a different story.