Bugout Machine Subdivision Sprouts in Sunny California

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The "solution" they come up with?  Give builders tax credits!  This makes it cheaper for the RE developer to build, but why would he pass the savings along to the buyer?  The same market forces would keep the price high and the builder just pockets the additional profit.

It also doesn't encourage development of the type of housing needed.  It's the same suburban model of "starter homes" for families with "middle class": incomes.  What is needed are apartments for lower class people with min wage incomes.  Where are the Starbucks Baristas EMTs and CNAs and Uber drivers supposed to live?  Places for old retired people on fixed incomes.  Places for recent immigrants.

The Private Sector of builders doesn't build this type of housing, it MUST be done by Da Goobermint.  God forbid though you put forward the CFS solution of a socialist solution.  Capitalism will solve it, as long as we make their profits bigger, right? 

Un-fucking-believable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/homebuyers-hit-by-price-surge-supply-crunch-rock-2024-election?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjDi7PAKMIXduwIw68WSAw&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AWsEHT64DovikYvRwVqpSCsiCOzEAW73iF1I_Z4qqXOU0dsbxD23yGMYSPw45OfJkMkUFz27anj81Y_aphrV&gaa_ts=66e3f33d&gaa_sig=wF27gFiTaM2Xz7NO4OkpBPbwwoSMSVc8b_z1u1wDwBe2iedUqWIxuj1pjcdXa3XnpJwHoFe8xTdZjCetDxXvJQ%3D%3D

Housing's Worst Crisis in Decades Reverberates Through 2024 Race

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[K-Dog]

The Private Sector of builders doesn't build this type of housing, it MUST be done by Da Goobermint.  God forbid though you put forward the CFS solution of a socialist solution.  Capitalism will solve it, as long as we make their profits bigger, right? 

Yes, but I'm sure the plan is all news to Kamala too, she knows no more about it than we do.  It is a ploy to get votes.  Likely she just found out about it.  A ploy to get undecided votes.

The Jan 6th Capital insurrection demographic has been analyzed.  It turns out to be the same social class that elected Hitler.  Petite Bourgeois to be specific.  Small business owners, and self-employed people who do not draw a paycheck.  People who may even have a couple of wage slaves.  Likely not paid well.  The class of people who could use this kind of program.  People who hate the government until they want something from government.  It is a targeted campaign promise directed at them, and no more than that.

The tactic is probably is very effective, and likely turned a part of the potential Trump hurd to Kamala.

The Harris staff could have used AI to come up with the program after they determined which group they wanted to persuade.

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Yet another "solution" to providing "Affordable Housing" which demonstrates just how out-of-touch with reality policy makers are with the mismatch between what they think the words "affordable" and "housing" mean.

$2500/mo gets you 300 square feet of living space.  Let's examine this realistically.

You work as a CNA in a Boulder Assisted Living Home for Cripples and Old Folks. or a Barista at a Starbucks.  You make $15/hr, $600/week.  Your rent alone burns up tour whole paycheck and you haven't bought food, paid utilities or anything else.

For this unaffordable housing, you get 300 sq, which if it's well laid out can be a good space, but having visited the units that Alaska Housing has I can tell you it's NOT well laid out.

For such small space, really an Open Floor Plan 20'x15' Studio is best, sticking an 8'x8' bathroom in a corner, but they instead throw in a wall to make it a  "1 Bedroom".  This makes BOTH the Living Room & the Bedroom into claustrophobically small rooms, and shrinks the bathroom to 6'x6'.  The bedroom is just about big enough to squeeze a double bed into.  The "Kitchen" is on a wall separated from the Living Room by an Island, leaving just enough space for a small couch and your Entertainment Center.  Maybe you get 1 or 2 tiny closets.

If the unit at least has a porch or balcony it's somewhat livable, but the unit I looked at did not.  The building hallways were narrow also, and overall it felt like a Prison.  My current space is better laid out.

Besides the fact it sucks, the number of the units available is FAR short of the demand.  The Waing List for the Alaska Housing Units is 18 months and growing longer.  It's a total failure on all levels, and it sounds the same in Boulder.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/09/15/affordable-housing-boulder-laughable-letters/

Letters: $2,500 a month "affordable" housing plan in Boulder is laughable

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https://www.denverpost.com/2024/09/15/affordable-housing-boulder-laughable-letters/
Letters: $2,500 a month "affordable" housing plan in Boulder is laughable
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Indeed. Daughter owns her own townhome and the mortage with a minimum down payment is <$2000 month in the Denver area. Could commute to Boulder without trouble if she wanted to. And between her 3 floors including her garage it certainly isn't 300 ft^2, I think it runs more like 1500 ft^2.

Pearl street is pretty close to the college, so it is some premo area but that doesn't justify $2500 month for 300 ft^2 under any purchasing there that I can ever imagine. I wonder who the article is meant to scare (as opposed to just being doomer bait).

Of course, she is young and has done what anyone wants their children to do (not that anyone else here is a parent) so in doomer land that makes her exceptional and all. Admittedly, she was properly raised. 

[K-Dog]

 
Private Equity's Ruthless Takeover Of The Last Affordable Housing In America

The money Borg is never satisfied.  Private equity, it kicks the old farts out.

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This is a real bargain, considering they spend $132,000/prisoner/year in the penal system.

Of course now they are criminalizing it to be homeless, so now they'll triple the cost every time they put a homeless person in jail for illegal camping.

https://ktla.com/news/california/heres-how-much-california-spends-on-each-homeless-person/

Here's how much California spends on each homeless person

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It ain't just the Big Apple and other major big shities.  The homeless are everywhere now.  Motels have become homes.



https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/hudson-valley-families-homeless-living-hotels-19874371.php

Hundreds of Hudson Valley families with children are homeless and living in hotels, report finds

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Locally, we collected one of these kinds of facilities recently. An older hotel was purchased by the county/city/state/whatever and stocked it with homeless and some of the Central/South American influx. It is interesting to watch when I drive past on the motorcycle, the only evidence that it isn't a hotel is that there are no cars in the lot, maybe one or two who I presume are the people making sure the tenants don't burn the place down or whatever. And the only other sign has been one of whom I presume are members of that hotels new residents sitting on a street corner holding a sign looking for cash or handouts. The location is REALLY bad for panhandling, as it is all triple lanes converging at a big intersection, crosswalks are few to nonexistent as it is more of a commercial area than one expecting foot traffic.

 

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These days, spending your Golden Years living on a Golf Course means pitching a tent in one of the Sand Traps.



https://wtop.com/maryland/2024/11/more-people-aged-65-face-homelessness-md-housing-officials-report/

More people aged 65+ face homelessness, Md. housing officials report

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[K-Dog]

These days, spending your Golden Years living on a Golf Course means pitching a tent in one of the Sand Traps.



https://wtop.com/maryland/2024/11/more-people-aged-65-face-homelessness-md-housing-officials-report/

More people aged 65+ face homelessness, Md. housing officials report

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It's America.  Bottom lines can't grow in capitalism without a reserve army of unemployed, and the homelessness that comes from it. 

American denial means times get tough.  The precariat must suffer as a function of system dynamics responding to denial and capitalist cultural hegemony.

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So far the winter has been pretty average cold & snow.  We had a couple of decent snowfalls about 4", and temps mostly in the 20sF, though a few nights have dropped to single digits.  No sub-zero yet.

Sounds like the same old story with the shelter biz, they wait until the last minute and consistently run a couple of 100 beds behind whatever the estimated population is.  However, nobody really knows how many people are actually without a shelter, and the natives (at least half of the homeless) usually are pretty acclimated and as long as they have a tent and sleeping bag can handle 20F weather by going to warming spots and making small fires etc.

We'll see how it goes when Jan rolls around.  That's when the sub-zero days start to pile up.  1 day an experienced outdoor living homo sap can handle pretty easily, when you start stringing 3-4 of them together is when the frostbite problems really kick in.

Of course, still nobody has come up with a reasonable long term solution acceptable both to homeless people and property owners.  Ireconcileable Differences.

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/anchorage/2024/11/21/winter-shelters-are-full-anchorage-officials-say-theyre-working-to-open-more/

Winter shelters for Anchorage's homeless residents are already full. Officials say they're working to open more.

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At least the Hosers aren't criminalizing homelessness like here in the FSoA.  However, Halifax is not Montreal or Toronto.  I wonder if they tolerate camping in the parks in those cities?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3wq7l1lnqpo

What happened when a city started accepting - not evicting - homeless camps

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Just back inside the Gulag after a smoking break while burning the midnite oil working on my designs.  Got some new ideas so I'm going back and overhauling some of the basic stuff.  I still have a lot of tweaking to do.

Temps have dropped to the negative digits Farenheit tonight after being in the single digits the last 2 nights.  Now the real test of this year's shelter system for the homeless gets rolling.  Also the test of the electrical grid and the NG supply to run the power plants and provide the juice that makes living in AK reasonably comfortable in the modern era.  The 15 minutes outside smoking at these temps reminds me quickly why only around 60K people liked up here  when the Europeans first arrived.  You just can't spend much time outside unless you're seriously bundled up in layers, and you need a good insulated habitation to hibernate in.

The fact it's only Thanksgiving and we still have a solid 4 months of this weather ahead is annoying, but then I think about what it would be like living down in Houston with no A/C when the power goes out and it's 98F with 90% humidity.  At least in the cold you can keep adding layers. Hot & humid, once you're naked that's it.

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Of course it was sabotaged.  Along with Food and Health Care, Real Estate is one of the core areas capitalists use to extract wealth from the working class.  All 3 areas are absolutely essential to a human being's existence, so if you control it everyone dependent on it is forced to buy from you.  Providing affordable housing as a social obligation of the society and human right is as anti-capitalist as you get.  It was inevitable in the FSoA that it would be sabotaged, founded as it was under British Common Law during the pinnacle of the feudal era.  The entire NA Continent was declared Property of the Crown, and the King granted land to lesser nobles who collected the taxes on it for him.  Capitalism and the shift over to Corporate ownership from Royal ownership didn't really change anything.  In fact the British Crown still owns plenty of property both in the FSoA and in Canada.

Public housing has been successful in other countries, a while back I put up an article about Austria, and I think Denmark does fairly well with it also.  However, all the english speaking former colonies of the British Empire including the FSoA, Canada and Oz have horrible problems with affordable housing now.  It all traces back to Feudalism, property ownership and the Rentier system.

https://www.vox.com/policy/390082/public-housing-america-policy-failure-poverty

Public housing didn't fail in the US. But it was sabotaged.

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[K-Dog]

Providing affordable housing as a social obligation of the society and human right is as anti-capitalist as you get.

Of course it is anti-capitalist, it denies the PRIMACY of private property.  Private property is the basis of class.

Provide fair rent or you can't rent and society will tell you what a fair rate is.

Such a statement in a place that mattered would result in the speaker getting his ass kicked.  And that statement is only consistent with the weakest form of socialism.  A social democracy. 

It is better to get rid of private property altogether.

So strong is our social conditioning that we treat mortal men as if they were gods.  Gods who only have land because what they have is provided by the dead labor of other men, and that which was taken by force.  But we act like the owner's land has been his or hers since dinosaurs roamed the earth. 

Calling title to land a 'deed' is appropriate.  Landed property is the result of dastardly deeds.

Here is good article about how private property was created in Britain.  English history is important.  It is the model western civilization evolved from.  It is the foundation that structured our society.

First you steal it, then you sell it.  And then it is rented out like Yahweh himself gave the property to an owner.

The natives of North America experienced a parallel experience that for them was far more devastating.