#news #housing
https://phys.org/news/2024-06-housing-shortage.amp
There is no housing shortage. There are many more homes than families who need them.
Builders and sellers just keep building unaffordable homes.
Then cities end up with a bunch of homeless people, and instead of treating them as people in crisis who have been forced into homelessness, they're treated as pests, and cities try to criminalize sleeping outside.
Asheville police will arrest homeless sleeping in doorways.
@LnzyHou @AskTheDevil When I was in New Orleans, police could arrest for anything under Napoleonic Law. I knew kids who when to jail over things like "assault on a cheeseburger" (taking off the pickles) and "impersonating an airplane", all kinds of stupid shit. Then they keep them until whatever festival or parade ends (there's something going on there all year long) and make them clean up the puke, then release them. We protested, there was a thing with the mayor, not sure if changes happened.
@tippitiwichet @AskTheDevil
Yet they let couples have stand up sex on Bourbon street in the middle of a crowd!
Or drunks peeing on your leg.