Candidate Has Solution for Housing Crisis [semi-satire]

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 29 May 2022 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Congressional candidate Rebecca Parson (D-Wash) is campaigning on a promise to legalize breaking into unoccupied homes as a means to address the homeless problem. She urges her supporters to "not wait until the legislation I vow to champion—the Housing for All Bill—is enacted, but to help accelerate the process by breaking into and occupying vacant properties now."

"There is no good reason for allowing owners who have other places to live to hoard unneeded residential space," Parson said. "As I see it, a person without a home has more right to occupy these houses than the so-called owner. It's a matter of human rights taking precedence over property rights. Right now, state law in Washington allows trespassers into unoccupied buildings to cite the vacancy as a defense against being punished for breaking and entering. This is a good first step toward the more equitable distribution of wealth I will work toward once I'm elected to Congress."

Another plank in her platform is to establish a nationwide $30 minimum wage law. "Members of Congress have a salary of $174,000 per year plus expenses," she pointed out. "This is more than three times the annual income of $60,000 a $30 per hour minimum wage would accrue. We have a moral obligation to see that the folks frying burgers, mopping floors, and delivering flyers get a better rate of pay than they're currently getting in the crazy-quilt pattern of varying state minimum wage laws."

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[rktman]

Oh, and $30.00/hr min wage too.

[dynachrome]

And this is why your masters have large mansions away from it all with armed guards.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

My understanding is that some cities already have the right to use eminent domain to take possession of properties that are in disuse.

This is normally done for commercial properties that are decaying, becoming an eyesore, and potentially a place for criminal behavior.

In Cali, because of Prop 13, it can be relatively inexpensive for an owner to keep a property in disuse without a tenant for years or even decades. I don't see how this helps anyone.

I definitely would be against anyone being allowed to break into an unused property, but I could see requiring an owner to utilize, rent out, or sell a property after a prolonged period of disuse, e.g. 5 years.

[Myrddin]

I suspect this fool would initiate a spike in lead poisoning and indigent burials.

[Born in 1950]

“I suspect this fool would initiate a spike in lead poisoning and indigent burials.“

Unfortunately there are many more fools than people willing to spread toxins or dig holes.

[Steven Scharf]

I wish articles like this would tell us who she is running against and what are here chances of succeeding. In her case she is running against an incumbent who has a sweet war chest.

Democratic
Member of Congress Derek Kilmer • FEC H2WA06129; 31 Mar 22; Tot $1,440,607; Dsb $936,380
Rebecca Elizabeth Parson • FEC H0WA06099; 31 Mar 22; Tot $135,529; Dsb $118,479

Republican
Todd A. Bloom
Chris Raymond Binns • FEC H2WA06178
Elizabeth Kreiselmaier • FEC H0WA06081; 31 Mar 22; Tot $271,077; Dsb $115,197

Independent
Tom Triggs

Washington State has a Jungle Primary on August 22, 2022. The district encompasses the North West corner of the state. The incumbent, Derek Kilmer beat Elizabeth Kreiselmaier 60/40 in 2020.

[Organic Panic]

Outlaw homelessness.