Posted on 08/02/2018 7:43:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
“Watch the police and the tax man miss me, I’m mobile!”
One factor: many workers live outside the work centers and commute weekly. The lodging cost is offset by sleeping in vehicles.
The work centers are where they are because the boss/owner wants to live there, and think that housing is a local government issue. The local government is restrained by selfish citizens who like things the way they are. So workers sleep in vans.
Doom and gloom articles didn’t appear under Bammy. They were saved until now.
Thanks to President Trump a bunch of homeless people who were sleeping on the streets can now afford cars. Good for them!
I’m in the Bay Area. That same home would be $1.2M easy in any decent neighborhood with a good school district.
Yep. James Taranto, opinion columnist for the Wall Street Journal, used to keep a running tally of homeless stories during the Bush administrations, noting that these stories were absent during the Clinton years.
“What could possibly be the problem???”
They ALL flunked math ?
They ALL ‘feel your pain’ tho !!
This is very worrying. Most everybody I know is middle-class or lower-middle-class. It could happen to most anyone if you don’t have a back up plan. A back up plan, meaning some way to stay housed if earning 30% less money for at least a few months.
This sounds like a variation on the “Now that there R’s are in power, oooo look, squir..... errrr... I mean homeless... errrr... I mean people living in their vehicles.
I bet a lot of those are Mercedes Benzes, Lexuses or Land Rovers.
Go to his web site, and you find out he pushes GOLD as the way to avoid the oncoming collapse and devastation.
I hate to tell him, there isn’t enough gold in the world to avoid the end times. Repentence, belief in Jesus Christ as the Savior are the keys to eternal salvation. All else is just noise.
I know one teaching couple that just bought a house on a combined income of 130k in San Diego. Town house actually. They are doing fine.
While that might be a sane policy, Congress has no role or right to interfere with local zoning. Take it up with your local city council.
You gotta love this. The homeless problem started in November of 2016, right? It didn’t start 10 years ago when U6 was at 30%?
Nope, Trump’s fault.
The economy has now turned itself around for two straight quarters, and people wonder why cancer hasn’t been cured yet.
No wonder nobody buys newspapers or watches the news anymore.
“For example, the number of people living on the street in L.A. has shot up 75 percent over the last 6 years.”
The author just unintentionally proved that Liberalism/Socialism/Communism Causes much pain. California has become cesspool because of it.
Every single person I know living hand to mouth is in that situation because of really bad financial decisions. Bad decisions that they are still making. Every once in awhile I get a call from them asking for a loan for various reasons. I just have to tell them no and explain that me loaning them money won’t help them and why. The latest one was 2 weeks ago. A friend for over 30 years called and wanted to borrow money to buy insurance for her car. She didn’t have any. Her son, who also had no insurance, totaled his truck, and hit someone, while driving through a parking lot like an idiot. She wanted to insure her car so he could drive it to work. I pointed out that she had an almost $200 per month cable bill but no insurance? She hasn’t spoken to me since. shrug
It is called, “Get a job.” Then you won’t be homeless long.
Wanna fix this?
Fix zoning laws.
Behind the tiny condo where I want to retire in Lanark Village, FL, one of the units burned down. The owners can’t rebuild because it is “too small.”
That’s right. There is an empty concrete pad behind my condo that no one can build on because of zoning laws.
People didn’t used to live the effing barns they build nowadays.
Allow smaller houses.
Here in New Jersey there is a push to change the law so that people can't be arrested or have their license revoked for failing to pay parking and speeding tickets. A recent editorial in a local newspaper bleated something to this effect: "Someone who gets a speeding ticket will end up paying more than $250 in fines and surcharges, and taking that person's license away will destroy them."
Apparently it never occurred to them that someone who can't afford a $250 penalty can't even pay an insurance deductible under the state's mandatory insurance law ... so what the hell are they doing with a license and a car in the first place?
Meanwhile congress passes a Tariff Relief Bill, lowering tariffs on good that are no longer produced in the USA.
Undermining Trump’s trade initiatives, forfeiting government revenues that could be used to help the homeless, and waving the white flag of surrender on those industries.
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