• Asafum@feddit.nl
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    3 months ago

    BuT I HaVe To WoRk FoR mY HoUsE!!

    …yeah? And you get to choose how nice that house is and where it is. You aren’t “forced” to only have a small apartment…

    America: land of the greedy, cold, asshole.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      Yeah? Well if someone decided to build affordable housing near my McMansion, then my precious house’s market value will decrease. Also something about crime because of the poors

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        Crime is a legitimate concern, especially for people raising a family. I get where you’re coming from, but you shouldn’t trivialize legitimate issues. I’m someone who grew up in a violent, crime infested area, and it fucking sucked.

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          3 months ago

          It is a concern, but crime is a symptom of a larger issue, that being poverty and desparation (for the most part). We need to put out the fire from the base, otherwise it will continue to grow.

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          The vast majority of theft is done through the wealthy via time card fraud / theft from employees, and then police through asset forfeiture. Crime and morality have nothing to do with poverty, and associating them with poor people (when the rich do the most of it) is classist propaganda.

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      3 months ago

      Eh … There are literally millions of people who work and don’t get to choose any of those things, and are forced into a small apartment and/or a roommate scenario.

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        3 months ago

        I mean, there’s no reason we can’t go the way of Japanese micro home in construction. Everything you need packed into an efficient little area you can still call home.

        Hell… if I wasn’t married with kids and pets, I’d almost prefer that.

      • Asafum@feddit.nl
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        3 months ago

        Oh I know that all too well lol I currently rent an “apartment” that is the upstairs of a dilapidated garage and I work full time as a psudo-supervisor in a factory (whatever im considered idk lol we don’t use titles so we can’t determine our value properly)

        For us, that “free housing” would probably be equivalent to what we have now lol

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      3 months ago

      I think the issue is that if the government offered tiny houses or apartments for anyone that everyone would want one.

      The value of “free shit” is somehow larger than the value of owning a large mansion or something.

      • stabby_cicada@slrpnk.netOP
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        3 months ago

        And what’s the problem? So what if a whole bunch of single people moved into tiny government houses? Housing is a human right. And it sure would bring rents down.