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538: Why don't we help poor people with housing


               
2016 Sep 16, 8:45am   2,087 views  13 comments

by tovarichpeter   follow (7)  

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-so-many-poor-americans-dont-get-help-paying-for-housing/

In 2013, everything crumbled all at once, Makera Meng said. She and her husband ran a business — an international grocery store — in South Portland, Maine, where they also owned a home. But that year, her mom died of cancer, they lost the business and her husband moved to Cambodia, where she had emigrated from three decades earlier. After 10 years of owning it, she lost her home, too. Im a good citizen, I work hard and I pay taxes, she said. But she hasnt been able to catch a break. As a single mom raising four kids on...

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1   FortWayne   2016 Sep 16, 10:57am  

Everyone else can barely afford their own housing,

2   Ceffer   2016 Sep 16, 10:58am  

Everybody needs a warm place to cook up and shit in the living room.

3   Strategist   2016 Sep 16, 11:26am  

Iv'e heard worse sob stories. Lots of government programs available to those down on their luck.

4   Heraclitusstudent   2016 Sep 16, 11:36am  

If you refuse to build enough, don't be surprised or sorry for people who live outside.

5   RC2006   2016 Sep 16, 12:53pm  

Cry me a river. Just like people around here that cry about housing, fucking move if you can't afford it here the people that are working can't afford to subsidize you.

6   RC2006   2016 Sep 16, 12:56pm  

CA would be so much better if we just kicked out all the freeloaders.

7   MisdemeanorRebel   2016 Sep 16, 12:57pm  

Get rid of the density laws and tax land values, not property. Problem Solved!

8   anonymous   2016 Sep 16, 1:36pm  

thunderlips11 is deplorable says

Get rid of the density laws and tax land values, not property. Problem Solved!

For a nation of "Capitalists", it's amazing that something so simple, escapes so many

9   FuckTheMainstreamMedia   2016 Sep 16, 3:32pm  

Anyone ever see the movie "The Super" where the slumlord had to live in one of his own buildings?

That's my proposal...anyone who supports low income housing in any appreciable quantity...they need to also live in the housing.

I swear these people are just assholes...lets build free housing for deadbeat low lives just so long as it's not next door to me.

Go spend a few months living in the Tenderloin or the flats in Oakland before you open your yap about how we need govt sponsored housing.

10   HEY YOU   2016 Sep 16, 5:34pm  

Any republican that didn't pay cash for their shack should be executed.
We don't need rightwing burdens on america's back.

11   PockyClipsNow   2016 Sep 16, 5:52pm  

If we simply changed zoning laws to force ALL CITIES to allow mobile homes anywhere - this would go a long long way to affordable housing.

12   Strategist   2016 Sep 16, 6:06pm  

PockyClipsNow says

If we simply changed zoning laws to force ALL CITIES to allow mobile homes anywhere - this would go a long long way to affordable housing.

Ain't gonna happen. Think of something else.

13   Strategist   2016 Sep 16, 6:38pm  

Ironman says

Ain't gonna happen. Think of something else.

Wait, are you saying there won't be a future for the Tiny House community that I'm creating?

Sure there is. Just not next to my house. :)

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