Fact Check

Based on currently available numbers, there are about 31 vacant housing units for every homeless person in the U.S.

  • version_unsorted@lemm.ee
    8·
    2 months ago

    There should be options other than renting and owning. If you don’t wish to own property there should still be housing available to you, but it doesn’t need to be rented from a landlord, it could be collectively owned (by tenants), municipal ownership, or something else. Relying on people with capital to provide housing while profiting from your need for housing is a broken system.

    • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
      15·
      2 months ago

      Sure, why dont you start one and give away your labor to people that dont want to work as much as you?

      • jorp@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        If you don’t want to participate in a market system why do you not simply die?

        • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
          12·
          2 months ago

          Because I dont want to die. If there were no market system how would you get food and survive?

                • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
                  11·
                  2 months ago

                  Do you really want government provided housing? The ones I am aware of are places like the projects and were the worst place to live (unless you were a drug dealer).

                  • jorp@lemmy.world
                    1·
                    2 months ago

                    When imagining that the government do more can you not imagine that it do better?

                    Yes Americans have a shit government, they also don’t have a socialist government.

                    You’re pointing to the corrupt right wing hellscape you currently live in to deny that another way would be better.