Message from @3v6en8
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It’s the technical definition
And they also necessitate some form of disability
I'm not just talking about the disabled and people who're wholly unsheltered for an entire year. Anybody who cannot find a stable living situation is in just as shite a situation
...ok
The 3 types of homelessness are chronic, transitional and disaster
We typically talk about chronic
And that’s mostly what you and trauma are talking about
But they’re a minority of the homeless pop
Mostly people who lose jobs and such
Transitional
I'm just talking about anybody without a stable living situation, I'm not sure how it ought to be arbitrarily understood for the sake of data-taking or particular social programs. If you can find somewhere to stay for 6 months in a program, but they put you back on the street at the end of the 6 months, you're suffering like any other unsheltered person to me because of the precarity involved with your living situation, but that's kind of beside the point.
Anybody who is without income outside of welfare, wouldn't be able to afford to live in a low-to-middle income housing situation
And a 10% reduction wouldn't help them much either
In urbanisation, housing are going to cost more in cities where most the jobs are
It's not a complete response to ending homelessness. Something like a Housing First policy or like we both agree single-payer could actually address the core cause of homelessness
Theres always going to be homelessness (as of our current time)
I think you’re underestimating how much a 10% reduction would alleviate housing prices
But sure I agree it’s not a perfect solution
I mean like I'm low-to-middle income. My housing combined with my roommate cost like 800 dollars
10% means I get 40 more dollars
Monthly
a 40 dollar reduction doesn't make it accessible to people in lower income brackets.
Jesus christ I'd fucking love to pay 800 *annually* in rent
that'd be fantastic
so you get 480 dollars a year
also don't you share with a roommate?
imagine if you didn't, the you would save 960 dollars a year
I pay like around 400, if our rent was reduced 10%, I'd only pay 40 less a month
THat's not a significant change.
Hey man that's a streaming service subscription
What is significant?
In terms of houses, like if you're taking out a mortgage, 10% is huge, but if you're renting, which is specifically what Warren talks about in that article, it can be miniscule.
You don’t live in the Bay Area
mortgages only work for middle class buying housing and such, while rent helps everyone who rent
Or on either coast
Like it sounds big yearly, but when you contextualize that you pay monthly or bimonthly, you're unlikely to notice unless you're paying over a thousand dollars in rent, which low to middle income people aren't doing on the regular.
That’s just not accurate
yeah, cities have higher cost than 800
I live in Atlanta
There's not housing for less than 1000 downtown