“The best thing about being a ‘dumb’ animal? We never get sex wrong.”
If the ordinary progression of housing from A-rated to D-paper is allowed to run its course, we find the people now living outdoors in D- or even E-level housing – but they are living indoors, with heat and running water.
That’s not all that’s required, of course: The employment market has to allow for marginal entrants. Would you hire the people now living outdoors? At the right price, someone will, but that price is not $15 an hour – nor even $7.35 or whatever is the current cut-off on legally-permitted viability.
Poverty is not caused by government. It is caused by bad luck and habituated poor choices. But poverty is massively worsened by government: The lowest-skilled and least-hirable people are prevented from improving their fortunes while they are pushed outdoors with every new mercy inflicted upon them by their coercive caretakers.
Do recall that E-level housing is what the muck-rakers raked muck against – and it’s what Robert Moses obliterated when he invented homelessness by way of Urban Renewal. Moses was a royalist, not a Marxist, but the man definitely liked breaking eggs. We have been wrong about housing for more than a century, and the shards of the eggshells line our streets in tents and pilfered shopping carts.
Poverty didn’t do that. Free markets didn’t do that – to the contrary. Government did that.
In other news:
Housing Wire: Even with high lumber prices, new home sales beat expectations.
Mike DelPrete: The Top Threat to Real Estate Portals.
David Horowitz: The Fascist Democrats and the Fake Insurrection: Why Americans should be afraid. Very afraid.
American Greatness: We Are Living in the Ruins of Our Civilization.
Michael Anton: Why Do the Election’s Defenders Require My Agreement?
