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You can choose to have affordable housing, or you can choose have a homeless encampment. The poor people don't just disappear.
by sjf 4y ago
You can choose to have affordable housing, or you can choose have a homeless encampment. The poor people don't just disappear.
- steponlego 4y ago[flagged]
- vkou 4y agoI think a better solution would be to see the NIMBYs get a bus ticket to Portland.
- steponlego 4y agoEverybody who lives here is a NIMBY. Can’t fight that. Why not make a walkable city for the homeless? A fresh one from scratch.
- vkou 4y ago> Everybody who lives here is a NIMBY. Can’t fight that. State-level laws will end your fight to stop development, as just happened in California, and is working its way through state legislatures in Washington.
- steponlego 4y agoDon't worry - people are fighting these tooth and nail. There isn't enough WEF money in the world to bribe people who have to live in the communities they represent.
- rootusrootus 4y agoBetween Republicans wanting to use the state to overpower cities, and Democrats now wanting the same, maybe we ought to just eliminate cities altogether and centralize all the authority.