If people value living in an area, the price goes up until supply and demand are similar. Those with less to spend have many other options. Nobody is owed a specific home. To say otherwise would ignore the huge benefit of immigration.
> Those with less to spend have many other options.
That's where you are very much making bad assumptions, or showing your complete lack of experience
I know a single mom with a kid who needs a regular scheduled experimental treatment only available in one hospital in the province. She can move to a lower cost area, where there aren't many jobs, and none that would pay enough for her to regularly travel to the city and get a hotel. She can't find a cheaper place to live in the city, because even a shared place is going for $1k+ for a bedroom, and no one wants a shared place with a kid. She could move farther away from the city and commute, but the rent savings wouldn't cover the cost of public transit, let alone a reliable car. The line for affordable housing is years long. She is one of thousands with a story like that.
There are a million and one scenarios where 'other options' just don't exist. To suggest that people opt to be unhoused/live in a car/couchsurf even though they have the option to be housed is wild.
Nobody is owed a specific home, but it is cruel, inhuman and immoral to suggest that people aren't entitled to a shelter of some sort, especially in a country where we have more than enough resources to solve the problem.
This is very hard to give the benefit of the doubt - nobody has implied "just be homeless". You're calling an imaginary enemy "cruel, inhuman and immoral", but you're addressing a real person.
But this doesn’t offer any justification for why, for locations that people highly value living in, we as a society ought to do anything other than maximize the number of people living there.
dghlsakjg|1 year ago
That's where you are very much making bad assumptions, or showing your complete lack of experience
I know a single mom with a kid who needs a regular scheduled experimental treatment only available in one hospital in the province. She can move to a lower cost area, where there aren't many jobs, and none that would pay enough for her to regularly travel to the city and get a hotel. She can't find a cheaper place to live in the city, because even a shared place is going for $1k+ for a bedroom, and no one wants a shared place with a kid. She could move farther away from the city and commute, but the rent savings wouldn't cover the cost of public transit, let alone a reliable car. The line for affordable housing is years long. She is one of thousands with a story like that.
There are a million and one scenarios where 'other options' just don't exist. To suggest that people opt to be unhoused/live in a car/couchsurf even though they have the option to be housed is wild.
Nobody is owed a specific home, but it is cruel, inhuman and immoral to suggest that people aren't entitled to a shelter of some sort, especially in a country where we have more than enough resources to solve the problem.
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