Quote (Skinned @ Apr 18 2019 06:17am)

For the homeless you need accessible housing that runs a spectrum starting with the emergency shelter and ending with individuals working and paying rent in a nice cheap apartment. There is a few steps and it is called the housing continuum. Emergency shelter -> temp housing in a more established place with a program, semi-permanent housing, permanent housing.

Biggest barrier is affordable housing. Nobody builds cheap apartments, only knocking them down. And homeless folks aren't gentle poets. There must be structure because they can't do freedom very well.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 18 2019 02:20pm)

I don’t buy this. If you want to leave cheap, go live in rural Ohio and work at the local wal-mart. Shit, that’s what my in-laws do. They work at wal-mart making minimum wage, own a house and afford it easily because you can get a 1600 sq ft home where they live for like $100,000 - $140,000 and their mortgage is $820 a month, which is less than half of 1 of their incomes at wal-mart’s $11/hour pay.

The problem is that as cities grew, they and their corresponding suburbs got more expensive. So now people want to live in suburbs of LA or NYC or DC or Miami and they struggle to understand why they can’t afford rent in Santa Monica, Brooklyn, Bethesda or Brickell, just to give examples.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 18 2019 03:20pm)

I don’t buy this. If you want to leave cheap, go live in rural Ohio and work at the local wal-mart. Shit, that’s what my in-laws do. They work at wal-mart making minimum wage, own a house and afford it easily because you can get a 1600 sq ft home where they live for like $100,000 - $140,000 and their mortgage is $820 a month, which is less than half of 1 of their incomes at wal-mart’s $11/hour pay.

The problem is that as cities grew, they and their corresponding suburbs got more expensive. So now people want to live in suburbs of LA or NYC or DC or Miami and they struggle to understand why they can’t afford rent in Santa Monica, Brooklyn, Bethesda or Brickell, just to give examples.

Quote (Skinned @ Apr 18 2019 04:54pm)

You have the worst time seeing past your privilege lol.

You can really tell you never had to deal with this problem.

Quote (Skinned @ Apr 18 2019 03:54pm)

You have the worst time seeing past your privilege lol.

You can really tell you never had to deal with this problem.

Quote (AspenSniper @ Apr 18 2019 04:20pm)

I don’t buy this. If you want to leave cheap, go live in rural Ohio and work at the local wal-mart. Shit, that’s what my in-laws do. They work at wal-mart making minimum wage, own a house and afford it easily because you can get a 1600 sq ft home where they live for like $100,000 - $140,000 and their mortgage is $820 a month, which is less than half of 1 of their incomes at wal-mart’s $11/hour pay.

The problem is that as cities grew, they and their corresponding suburbs got more expensive. So now people want to live in suburbs of LA or NYC or DC or Miami and they struggle to understand why they can’t afford rent in Santa Monica, Brooklyn, Bethesda or Brickell, just to give examples.

Quote (EndlessSky @ Apr 18 2019 05:30pm)

Common sense isnt a privilege.

Quote (thesnipa @ Apr 17 2019 05:00pm)

funding doesn't result in higher grades? like how i lift weights and don't turn into Arnold overnight? or? funding of schools over decades has increased standardized testing both on the whole, and closed the gap that using only property taxes created over many other decades. bit of correlation vs causation, but pre internet less so.

also no one smart ever said give the poor anything and expect it to stay pristine. projects, homeless collectives, public housing, etc has always proven to be a failure. no one takes care of something they dont own and/or didn't build, the same can be said for any apartment complex, but they have security deposits and they charge rent so someone moves out and the repairs are pre-paid.

better projects are always fund to build models. community gardens, etc. this hasn't been done on a home scale, given building codes it likely can't be. but if people who live there were involved in building and/or had a way to gain ownership in a rent to buy program you might see a marked change in how they care for the home.