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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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Providing public housing would be better overall for 90% of people, but it would undercut landlords and real estate companies, and those groups have political power that homeless and low income people don't.
Sounds like a lame excuse for not doing the work. Why nobody requests it from their elected reps and city councils? Why nobody demands housing for homeless to be build in their neighborhood? Did you @SSJMarx petition your mayor to build something in your town?
unfortunately my current city is all Republican, but when I lived in a blue city I did join protests and petitions to that effect.
and I mean, there are fits and starts of good policies you can find around the country, it just falls far short of what's needed to combat the problem.
So you reap the benefit of living in town that's presumably not overrun with visible homeless, but you seem fit to give advice to blue towns where I can't take my son to the park because of naked hobos running after us. That's not random example. This shit happens all the time.
i used to live near a park with a lot of homeless, walked my dog there every evening, but I had to move to the sticks because I couldn't afford the rent anymore. oh and we still get homeless traffic here, there's just no way in hell my libertarian-as-fuck "representatives" will ever do anything about it.
You must be one of those people that climb mountains with no ropes. Good for you- doesn't work for everyone else. Especially women and children.
How does this metaphor work? I'm advocating for public housing, ie making things easier for people even though I don't strictly need it myself.
I was referring to you walking your dog among the hobos
The same principle applies - public housing would reduce the number of unhoused, meaning that you wouldn't run into them at parks, and I advocate for it even though I personally have never had a problem with them.
Hey I'm all for building more affordable housing. I'm just pointing your that nothing official has been stopping this solution for decades, but nothing has been done to curb the problem. Articles like this don't address the reality of the situation. Articles like this is just a virtue signaling for the voter base. Everybody will node their little heads and move on with their day. The same people get elected and then ... nothing. Me and 90 percent of poor housed city dwellers will continue to suffer the consequences. Mark my word this is the issue that might turn blue city cores into red zones. Honestly Dems are just so lucky that Republicans screwed up with abortion rights otherwise they wouldn't have my votes either.