There is not a shortage of homes. This is a contrived fallacy created by the YIMBY movement and real estate lobby. The truth is we have too many people who feel like they are entitled to live wherever they want for whatever price they can afford. I would love to live on the beach in Hawaii, but I can't afford it. I could claim that there is a shortage of homes on the beach in Hawaii, but thats not an accurate description of what is actually the root cause of the grievance here.
This doesn’t pass the smell test to me. That makes sense if homelessness was only a problem in a few places. It’s not. It’s happening everywhere. Eugene and Portland may be worse than average but I promise you it’s all over the place.
Where do you propose sending these homeless that they can suddenly have available homes?
Here is an apartment complex in El Paso that has listings for under $200/mo. There are places like this all over the US. If everyone had $1000/mo there is no reason why a homeless perfon would prefer to live in a tent in soggy Washington/Jeffferson park all winter when they can rent an apartment in Texas and still have $800 left over. The only reason they might choose Eugene would be because we let them get high and stabby while Texas doesn't put upwith that crap.
Just for a little education on what you just listed -
El Paso Texas has a problem where they manipulate migrant workers and border hoppers so they post these kinds of adds that say 70 dollars a month! 145 dollars a month! Which they mean that is the first months deposit on their 900 dollar single bedroom apartment that 4 people are going to live in.
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u/warrenfgerald Aug 04 '22
There is not a shortage of homes. This is a contrived fallacy created by the YIMBY movement and real estate lobby. The truth is we have too many people who feel like they are entitled to live wherever they want for whatever price they can afford. I would love to live on the beach in Hawaii, but I can't afford it. I could claim that there is a shortage of homes on the beach in Hawaii, but thats not an accurate description of what is actually the root cause of the grievance here.