tj444
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%*(@#&^)(#@& talking with you liberals is maddening.
I didn't say for one instance that "affordable housing" isn't or might not be a problem in places around the country.
go back and look at what ive written. see if it doesn't look exactly like this summary below.
I posted salaries of the people the article is claiming to represent.
I posted actual rents and availabilities in the particular area in question.
the rents and salaries are commensurate with each other.
so if teachers, chefs and nurses are "homeless" then something else is going on.
and whats more---sharing single bedroom places or going in with others on multiple bedroom places makes things affordable. if people don't have the sense or chutzpah to do that, then yeah, they are "choosing" to be homeless.
now---if you can overcome the overwhelming sense of a bleeding heart, and since you are the arbiter of reality, please explain the phenomena above?
tell me how the nursing assistant making 28k cannot afford a studio apt for 800 a month?
tell me how teachers making at least 50k cannot afford a single apt for ~1500.
tell me how two people working $10/hour jobs cant afford to share a single apartment?
You seem to forget that some of those people probably still have huge student loans to pay (so they could get those gynormous wages), perhaps medical bills, or previous debts from losing their home during the Great Recession, plus their vehicle cost, insurance, gas, loan payments, and food, medical & prescription costs, costs for their kids (food, clothing, school, medical, etc), etc and the costs you quote for rent usually require paying more for the electric, gas, internet, cable tv etc even if shared with others.. it all adds up and who knows what kinda dump those rents are or what kind of people you will be sharing with and how honest and clean they are or arent.... and any landlord will likely want to do a credit check and if someone is having a hard time they may not meet the landlords requirements on that either, not to mention that if they are working 8 hours a day, by the time they get off work the new rentals could already be gone.. and landlords likely have dozens of people to choose from...
You also seem to have forgotten the others mentioned in the article..
"About 35 per cent of those in the program are seniors and about 30 per cent are disabled. The majority are living out of their small cars with only 25 per cent sleeping in RVs. "
"Luisa Ramirez is preparing the bed to sleep in a vehicle in a church parking lot. She hurt her back working at the 99 cent store"
"Ericson ended up homeless after a series of medical set backs. She suffered a number of seizures that forced her to quit her job and was eventually diagnosed with a brain tumor. She overcame the illness while caring for her dying mother and is now working two different jobs to make ends meet. Up until three months ago, Ericson was living in apartments for $1,000-1,600 a month but became homeless when she fell behind in rent."
But yeah, I hear what you are saying.. some of these homeless people could prostitute themselves and go for one of those "free room for girlfriend/fwb" ads some nice giving dudes put up who are willing to share their bed with someone less fortunate...
btw, I am not a liberal.. but I do at least have compassion and understanding for those who have become homeless.. many who have hit bad times due to no fault of their own (like brain tumors, disabled, being hurt at work, getting old and living longer than their money lasts)...
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