Message from @Mee6

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2019-10-07 17:09:53 UTC  

Nobody doing what I do for work lives downtown.

2019-10-07 17:10:21 UTC  

mamma mia

2019-10-07 17:10:24 UTC  

here we go again

2019-10-07 17:11:28 UTC  

We’re talking about the Bay Area and NYC

2019-10-07 17:12:17 UTC  

We’re talking about the Bay Area and NYC

2019-10-07 17:12:21 UTC  

My rent is $2000

2019-10-07 17:12:59 UTC  

Sure if you live in like San Francisco or NYC, 10% on your rent as a low-to-middle income person is pretty substantial, but outside of areas NYC, San Francisco, LA, and maybe DC, like in the rest of the country, for renters it's negligible

2019-10-07 17:13:20 UTC  

Right, but that’s where the homeless problem is the greatest

2019-10-07 17:13:26 UTC  

Homeless people

2019-10-07 17:13:29 UTC  

have no income

2019-10-07 17:13:31 UTC  

Decreasing rent

2019-10-07 17:13:33 UTC  

won't help them

2019-10-07 17:13:54 UTC  

Or they have an income so low that they can't afford rent, and a 10% reduction won't get them into an apartment building.

2019-10-07 17:15:02 UTC  

Homelessness happen in high rent cities, a 10% reduction helps people not get evicted

2019-10-07 17:15:16 UTC  

Approaching a solution to homelessness through the lens of the marketplace is usually going to be ineffective. Countries which have near non-existent homeless populations employ Housing First and get them in homes without asking for rent.

2019-10-07 17:15:39 UTC  

@3v6en8 Yeah like I said it'll help people dealing with gentrification, but it's not going to do anything if you're homeless

2019-10-07 17:15:43 UTC  

Again that’s not accurate

2019-10-07 17:15:58 UTC  

Alleviating the housing market in the aggregate helps homelessness

2019-10-07 17:16:19 UTC  

More homes = lower cost

2019-10-07 17:16:21 UTC  

What does a 10% reduction to rent do for someone on Skid Row?

2019-10-07 17:16:21 UTC  

GG @fuck12moredeadcops, you just advanced to level 2!

2019-10-07 17:16:52 UTC  

Well, if they were kicked out of their house because they couldn’t afford rent, it lets them move back into their house

2019-10-07 17:16:58 UTC  

So they’re no longer homeless

2019-10-07 17:17:43 UTC  

Okay, if your rent goes up, and you can't afford it, and you decide to stay anyway with no plan to relocate yourself and that caused your homelessness, yeah it'll help you

2019-10-07 17:17:48 UTC  

Honestly for skid row, its needs low income jobs and low income housing

2019-10-07 17:17:56 UTC  

...no

2019-10-07 17:18:06 UTC  

So remember that’s 76% of people

2019-10-07 17:18:12 UTC  

But the market moves as a whole

2019-10-07 17:18:28 UTC  

If someone higher up has a rent reduction, it allows them to upgrade

2019-10-07 17:18:37 UTC  

Making room for someone lower on the chain and so on

2019-10-07 17:18:44 UTC  

Like I’m not saying it solves all the problems

2019-10-07 17:18:49 UTC  

Nice way of saying that

2019-10-07 17:19:04 UTC  

By a very strict definition of chronically homeless you've derived that number. If you're in and out of temporary living situations with no clear path to permanent housing, you're not counted as chronically homeless, and if you have no disability you're not counted as chronically homeless.

2019-10-07 17:19:20 UTC  

But obviously if you have a 10% alleviation in rent it lowers housing costs

2019-10-07 17:19:26 UTC  

So?

2019-10-07 17:19:42 UTC  

If you are alleviating for some you are alleviating for all

2019-10-07 17:19:56 UTC  

So this number is absolutely flawed when a large chunk of the population which is habitually on the street is not counted.

2019-10-07 17:20:06 UTC  

Because the people who ARE helped are no longer taxing the system, and can provide help for the others

2019-10-07 17:20:12 UTC  

You have no data to support that claim.

2019-10-07 17:20:38 UTC  

If you disagree with official estimates, then provide alternative data

2019-10-07 17:21:12 UTC  

I don't disagree with the official estimates, I think the categories they've created don't accurately reflect the number of people without places to stay on a regular basis.