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But, these small towns don't have a liquor store and drug dealer a block away, so there's that.
That's the thing. If you ever talk to a homeless addict the last thing they want to do is move away from their dealer, even if it's across town. But the more we let them camp on the streets the more they get used to it and refuse to live in housing. We are not being compassionate by allowing this. It's making the problem worse, and the 9th Circuit again ruled that public camping is legal. Crazy!
You can't ignore the effect of REITs and consortiums buying up apartment complexes and the flipper industrial complex going after single family homes.
These have caused rents to spike 60-80% in my formerly affordable town.
It used to be two people on disability could afford to share an apartment but no more.
Dm, you are lucky to have found a place that hasn't been targeted by the real estate predators.
I know many will scream free enterprise, yay, but my taxes have gone up to build new housing for the displaced.
This is a MAJOR part of the problem but it is almost entirely being ignored by the mainstream media.
These REITS and other real estate corporations are not just buying up apartment complexes as you say but also single family houses now. And now they are putting pressure on state politicians to override local city/town/county zoning laws, especially in the suburbs, because they want to rent out those single family homes to multiple families.
I believe it is a major reason why Biden broke the immigration system, they want the illegal aliens not just for the traditional cheap labor but also because these REITS and corporate real estate owners (many from overseas), want tenants to fill their housing.
In the major metros, if there was less immigrants legal, and illegal, there will be less people. Less people means more housing available. More housing available is one factor that pushes rents down, and demand for purchases down thus lowering COL.
Because we have such a housing crunch in the major metros like SoCal, NEC, means we dont need any more immigrants including the legal ones.
The biggest cause of homelessness? Enablers, the good-willed people who give the homeless money. Without them, the homeless would have to work for a living. They wouldn't spend their own money on drugs like they do from the mooched.
Yep, DRUGS is the driver of homelessness. It's not a MYSTERY folks.
Addiction is serious. The victim is incapable of doing anything once the drug takes over. That's how they end up on the street. They're incapable of working at McDonalds.
Liberals decriminalizing drugs, making drugs more easily available, refusing to prosecute drug and theft crimes (thefts are committed by addicts for the most part) and even providing drug paraphernalia to users! - enable drug use and result in more homelessness.
If they cannot get job, how they afford to buy drugs? How the drug cartels get so rich?
At this point we can't believe he hasn't been murdered yet. Although he has done years in prison and just a month or so ago knifed by some other addict who wanted something he had.
Good article! Like it said "lack of Affordable housing" is the main driver. Just the type of housing Biden's 6 million plus Illegals have being moving in to
Exactly. Flooding the US with 6 million illegal aliens is the WORST possible thing to do if affordable housing is the goal. It increases demand on an already too small supply of affordable housing, thereby causing rent and home prices to skyrocket.
Can't afford a home? Thank Joe Biden and his "come one, come all" welcome of 6 million illegal aliens all vying for a place to live.
Glad you liked the article, but switching subjects is a bit of a typical shell game in this forum. Isn't it?
Can't anyone focus on the facts related to one subject without the typical knee-jerk switcharoo to whatever their alternative favorite bent might be about?
How do you expect to be able to talk about the dearth of affordable housing without talking about WHY that has happened?
If they cannot get job, how they afford to buy drugs? How the drug cartels get so rich?
Sometimes being homeless is their job. Panhandling is very lucrative. Free money, no taxes, work the hours you want.
I've seen them here in my state standing with their "Hungry, anything helps, God Bless" cardboard signs and most of the time they don't want money for food, its for alcohol or meth. Go ahead and hand them a burger and watch them toss it in the ditch or set it on the ground and keep panhandling.
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