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0 pointsomegaworks4y ago0 comments

>The poor do not deserve a roof.

Is exactly the implication of market-based housing.

I was hoping that my explanation would help to illustrate how facilitating eviction won't help with rising homelessness. How it alone can actually foster the growth of homelessness. "Supply" created by evicting tenants is only supply for the people that can afford the new price.

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nate_meurer4y ago· 1 in thread

I think it would be more accurate to say it's the implication of artificial barriers to supply, such as restrictive zoning.

The government won't build you a home, at least not the kind you'd want to live in.

omegaworksOP4y ago

>The government won't build you a home, at least not the kind you'd want to live in.

The government needs to get out of the way of people trying to build homes, and it needs to protect the people that are currently housed.

Eviction enforcement is orthogonal to these concerns.

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