by NDrLoR ➕follow (3) 💰tip ignore
Comments 1 - 15 of 15 Search these comments
The politicians who run Santa Cruz are bleeding heart liberals and socialists; the residents are largely not so liberal but the students up at "Uncle Charlie's Summer Camp" vote them in.
The reasons often offered include a moderate climate, the availability of generous welfare benefits, mental health and drug abuse. However, a lengthy and meticulously sourced article in the current issue of Atlantic magazine demolishes all of those supposed causes.
Rather, the article argues persuasively, California and other left-leaning states tend to have the nation’s most egregious levels of homelessness because they have made it extraordinarily difficult to build enough housing to meet demands.
Author Jerusalem Demsas contends that the progressive politics of California and other states are “largely to blame for the homelessness crisis: A contradiction at the core of liberal ideology has precluded Democratic politicians, who run most of the cities where homelessness is most acute, from addressing the issue.
“Liberals have stated preferences that housing should be affordable, particularly for marginalized groups … But local politicians seeking to protect the interests of incumbent homeowners spawned a web of regulations, laws, and norms that has made blocking the development of new housing pitifully simple.”
Because they do.
Some guys sued to require the students
the straw man fictions that homeless are just like you and I, just 'down on their luck' for a while and need a helping hand
patrick.net
An Antidote to Corporate Media
1,192,951 comments by 13,872 users - Onvacation, UkraineIsTotallyFucked online now