{"id":17891,"date":"2021-02-25T06:59:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=17891"},"modified":"2021-02-25T06:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T13:59:13","slug":"overnight-news-the-cure-for-homelessness-get-the-government-out-of-the-real-estate-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17891\/overnight-news-the-cure-for-homelessness-get-the-government-out-of-the-real-estate-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: The cure for homelessness? Get the government out of the real estate\u00a0business."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe best thing about being a ‘dumb’ animal? We never get sex\u00a0wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Absent zoning \u2013 without arbitrary government intrusions in the housing market \u2013 there is no homelessness.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 but they are living indoors, with heat and running water.<\/p>\n

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 \u2013 nor even $7.35 or whatever is the current cut-off on legally-permitted viability.<\/p>\n

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<\/em> they are pushed outdoors with every new mercy inflicted upon them by their coercive caretakers.<\/p>\n

Do recall that E-level housing is what the muck-rakers raked muck against \u2013 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.<\/p>\n

Poverty didn’t do that. Free markets didn’t do that \u2013 to the contrary. Government did that.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Even with high lumber prices, new home sales beat expectations.<\/a><\/p>\n

Mike DelPrete:<\/strong> The Top Threat to Real Estate Portals.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> Just Say No . . . to Parks?! Urban recreation areas are reenergizing neighborhoods, but activists increasingly fear \u201cgreen gentrification.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

David Horowitz:<\/strong> The Fascist Democrats and the Fake Insurrection: Why Americans should be afraid. Very afraid.<\/a><\/p>\n

American Greatness:<\/strong> We Are Living in the Ruins of Our Civilization.<\/a><\/p>\n

Michael Anton:<\/strong> Why Do the Election\u2019s Defenders Require My Agreement?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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