Affordable housing

I’ve been receiving SNAP for less than a year, while also working full time. When my review came up, they slashed my benefits because I’m working. So instead of $300 a month, i only receive $24! That’s nothing! Especially with food costs going up!

Mmhm. Social worker in the biggest town in a rural area. If I didn't already have a condo I wouldn't be able to be in the field. I have coworkers who only are able to keep working in a nonprofit cuz of habitat for humanity housing.

I first heard the "I like renting, it lets me be flexible. I can pack up and go whenever I want" line from fellow millennials. It reads to me as having the subtext of "I can never trust the economy to be stable enough to commit to a mortgage even if I could afford one now. "

Sometimes infants go to the emergency room. Fever this. Earache that. This is perfectly healthy infants! Happens. Even with insurance, an unplanned emergency room visit can cost between $100 and $500. So while fashy dudes talk about birth rate, some couple in a 1BR is delaying starting a family.

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It’s interesting how much having a boatload of money could addresses some of those challenges. Accountants can file extensions and do your taxes. If you have enough money, late fees and credit dings don’t matter. Instacart exists. But I guess in the past, families must have helped more…?

That's the housing crisis solved, anyway.

Now, if you think I don't have a right to say that? Well, first of all, and I'll be blunt. Fuck you. I've lived that kind of poverty, and I also work on these issues now. As a volunteer. Every day.

You mean, if you have to spend more money to secure your existence then you earn that that brings you in a precarious situation?

this was regarding a single family property unfortunately, maybe state regs. regardless.. i don’t see how this doesn’t just create a for profit ratcheting mechanism where businesses can conspire* to jack rents and they can never come down

Sold out does not equal occupied.  Thousands of units are sold on builder books.  They are empty in the secondary market.  Investors are competing for one exit.  The first person to drop their price wins.  The rest wait for years. Choose your side.

This problem doesn’t get fixed unless investor capital is castrated. You could potentially shift it out of housing but it would just take up root in another part of our lives because that is its purpose - extracting wealth from the labor class and moving it upwards.

Because many of the people pushing this stuff only have the idea of building more. The supply problem is real, but fixing that is not a panacea.

A rising tide should raise all boats but we’ve got the rich chaining poor people’s boats to the sea floor to try to raise their own luxury yachts just a little bit higher. Not my life nor your life, nor a lgbtqioa+, immigrant, etc persons life is fodder for these fuckers convenience

That’s not what Abundance wants to do. And we don’t have a supply issue - it’s a distribution issue - in part because people are buying multiple properties.

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I own property. What’s your solution?

The confusing thing is that different needs get conflated into one. "affordable housing" One person needs an apartment for $500 a month and is then able to handle things from there. Someone else requires a FREE place to live longterm with medical staff on hand.

I'm making the distinction between "getting by" and "moving forward." There's been some economic recovery, but I think most of us compare ourselves to where our parents were at our age, and even people with a good, comfortable job like I have can't afford to live the way they did.

We don't. We have to rely on food pantries. Keeping the utilities running and a roof over our heads takes priority.

In cities, in particular - which is where most rent relief organizing is happening - the vast majority of people who need rent assistance could never afford to buy a home, no matter what kind of support programs there are. The housing prices are just wildly out of reach even for middle class people.