“Homelessness is a Housing Problem”: When cities build more housing, homelessness goes down
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Maybe you’ve seen the headlines: “Affordable housing in California now routinely tops $1 million per apartment to build ” (that’s up a few hundred thousand from 2017, when we wrote “L.A. digs a hole more slowly than economics fills it back in: The Proposition HHH Facilities Program RFP “). At a million dollars a unit, not many units will be built, and California will continue to suffer from high housing costs in general and high levels of homelessness. The topic is, unfortunately, timely; I’ve been reading a book,?Homelessness is a Housing Problem: How Structural Factors Explain U.S. Patterns , which covers what you’d expect based on the title. Yet there’s a naive, common view that homelessness is primarily about “mental illness” and “drugs” and other potential contributors to homelessness; while those factors exist, the lower the cost of housing, the easier it is for someone on the margin of being housed or being homeless to stay housed. The lower the cost, the easier it is for family, SSDI, Housing Choice Vouchers (HCV, formerly called Section 8), and other income supports to keep a person housed. Intuitively, this makes sense: it’s easier to cover $750 in rent than $2,000 in rent, even for someone with mental illness and drug problems. As the cost of housing goes up, the number of people who fall from the margins of being “housed” to being “homeless” goes concomitantly up. While mental illness and drug abuse are factors, they’re secondary to housing costs, and they’re really red herrings relative to overall housing costs and ongoing housing shortages across America. Click here to continue reading: https://seliger.com/2022/06/29/homelessness-is-a-housing-problem-when-cities-build-housing-homelessness-goes-down/
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1 年Yeah in theory, personal experience , ok not only no housing built , nope, it's not even gonna be considered to be for what claimed to be to word manipulation right to the bank and it's very KNOWN people do it together , just like lawyers and plea agreement crap (word fuckery) .. this is not all Hardy rentals property management Russ himself. LITERALLY RENT INFESTED APARTMENTS AFTER WHITE TAGGING 1 APARTMENT OK, I had to learn this stuff the hard. Way. The program I'm on helping me with housing KNOWS BECAUSE I'M NOT THAT GIRL /HUMAN BEING!!. apartment inspector the landlord and manger ALL had done white tagged 1 apartment the morning a fire under MY BEDROOM IN BASEMENT .. you know the worst part.?? NOBODY ASKED ANY OF US IF WE WERE OK!. not only that, police laughed at me when I called for their help with violence aggressive and very rediculous bahavior and , I didn't know what I was moving into. Everyone else did tho. . They're about playing CLOUT for money. Shit Bonnie the manger did online government applying for my rent utilities assistance WITHOUT ME BEING THERE , WITH MY INFO we started to from separate places my cell her computer, not only did she decide change my email password etc. ??
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1 年I think in the expanded article you pretty much nailed most of the issues limiting upward mobility in regards to ownership. Exclusionary zoning and needlessly complex and expensive permitting and structural and electrical codes exacerbates and compounds the issues. If you add in all of the other financial and societal pressures you have what we see today, which is to say, a very big mess to sort out. We have positive examples globally, the template is already there as it's been done (or at least mitigated) in many places as you point out. Why then are there holdouts who refuse to adapt these legacy systems so the problem can be fixed? The only logical explanation is that they must really like it just the way it is.
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1 年To solve homelessness one cannot expect building more housing will solve the issue. I argue there needs to be better paying jobs, increase in resources and services, and more affordable housing. By having these in place, will do more than provide a bed for those who are homeless. It will also help deal with the issues that caused some to be homeless.