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I keep hearing this term affordable housing. What does that even mean??
1 posted on 04/12/2024 7:38:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sometimes you need a carrot and sometimes you need a stick. We’re a little past the carrot stage.


30 posted on 04/12/2024 8:28:45 AM PDT by webheart
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If they don’t care about themselves they won’t care about you.


32 posted on 04/12/2024 8:30:22 AM PDT by Justa
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Some of the homeless are Americans who have had a hard financial time and could be helped by “affordable” housing. They are far outnumbered by the insane who need to be institutionalized, the drug addicts who would just cut the pipes out of their walls to get money from the copper for one more high, and the illegals who shouldn’t be here at all.


34 posted on 04/12/2024 8:33:41 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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It means “Your tax dollars at work.” and “We are coming for your neighborhood next.” When every policy and new regulation means added costs to construction it is the height of hypocrisy to mouth the words “affordable housing.” Demanding, planning, designing, contracting, building, and allocating housing all requires lots and lots of money changing hands. If the idea was truly to get people into housing you would have far less people involved in the process.


36 posted on 04/12/2024 8:48:55 AM PDT by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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We have an example of affordable (for the tenant) housing.
It is called prison. The problems in prisons would continue in most other ideas of affordable housing. At least prisons mostly contain them to the tenants.

Note “most other ideas” does not equal “all ideas”.


37 posted on 04/12/2024 8:52:15 AM PDT by Inquiring Minds
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OK...I can agree with that.Perhaps the first “affordable housing” complex can be built on Martha’s Vineyard. I’d say a complex of about 10,000 units would be perfect.


38 posted on 04/12/2024 8:56:34 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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Homelessness is not the problem, it’s just a symptom of drugged out bums.

Drugs is the problem.

The are few if any “homeless ‘ in Singapore.


40 posted on 04/12/2024 9:04:31 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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no
there’s plenty of housing in much of America

that’s not the problem

the problem for most of the homeless is
1. narcotics addiction
2. alcohol addiction
3. both of above
4. laziness
5. welfare handouts addiction (especially where they can get, in effect, three or four times the food they need like in Californication)
5. attitudinal poisoning (like, “I’m entitled, You Give Me!”)
7. trained by corrupt leftwing politicans to be addicted to free handouts, welfare, loan forgiveness and all the rest... in exchange for votes
6. all of above


44 posted on 04/12/2024 9:45:56 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Also according to The Hill, good health is the remedy for illness.

There have been many attempts at finding the bottom in the well of stupid over at The Hill (since John Solomon was given the boot), but no one has been able to find a cable long enough to get to the bottom.


48 posted on 04/12/2024 11:15:50 AM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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Do a search for Cabrini Green.


49 posted on 04/12/2024 11:17:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Same BS trope they peddaled in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90,s etc.


54 posted on 04/12/2024 1:12:38 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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I like the current solution.

The lavish welfare blue states are vacuuming up the homeless nationwide.

They’re doing the rest of us a tremendous service.


55 posted on 04/12/2024 2:15:06 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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Close the border. Deport the illegals. Put the mentally ill in mental hospitals. Put the bums and drug addicts in jail. Problem solved. It worked for many years until we closed the mental hospitals and the leftists released people from jail.


56 posted on 04/12/2024 4:44:00 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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