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Housing should be free (i.ibb.co)

submitted 7 months ago by LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/libertyhub@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Nualkris@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The poverty class is necessary as a threat to the working class to keep them accepting jobs and pay they don't particularly like

[–] sudo@programming.dev 8 points 7 months ago

Landlord-Tenant relations is the bleeding edge of class conflict. Just the most ruthless shit that most Americans go through. If you fail it you go into the gaping maw of homelessness and incarceration.

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Is this factually, verifiably true? I figured there would be empty houses (friction etc) but one for every twenty persons sounds like a lot.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 7 months ago (4 children)

The most recent data from the National Alliance to End Homelessness puts the number of homeless people at 552,830. There are more than 17 million vacant homes across the U.S., according to the Census Bureau

[–] natecox@programming.dev 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Calling that claim “false” is deeply unsatisfying when the actual ratio of empty houses to homeless people is worse than the stated one.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Right? It's false because it's even worse than previously stated. Hopefully people will pick up on that.

[–] sunbather 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

it does indeed make one wonder seeing as the 17mil figure is from 2019 and with Everything thats happened since then its bound to have changed

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

It's almost certainly even worse now.

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[–] match@pawb.social 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

*Twenty for every one persons

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago

Total persons in the US, not homeless persons.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 7 points 7 months ago

How can a select a few live in disgusting luxury with the wealth of 1000 lifetimes if we don’t have homelessness?

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 7 months ago

But if we don't keep people poor and desperate how will the capitalists sit on their massive pile of gold like a demonic dragon?

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 5 points 7 months ago

If I've learned anything from crypto, it's that you have to burn the surplus.

[–] Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 7 months ago

"How is my iNveSTmeNt ProPerTy supposed to increase in value if we don't enforce scarcity?"