Re:The battle to save Silicon Valley's oldest trailer park
by panglott on Monday November 16, 2015 @04:28PM
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Note that this is an article in which the people actually talk about their struggles with homelessness and their fears of becoming homeless.
I don't actually disagree that the trailer park should probably be torn down and be replaced with a denser condo development. And the property owner certainly has a right to sell the property to developers (gentrification would not be so problematic if renters had property rights in their home).
Rising housing costs is not at all due to some inhuman market pressure: it is a policy choice against densification. And surely to think that the way something was is the way it needs to be in the future is irrational. But shouldn't that be true for people who live in single-story houses also?
Re:The battle to save Silicon Valley's oldest trailer park
by CyberDildonics on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @01:02PM
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> But shouldn't that be true for people who live in single-story houses also?
That isn't what the article is about.
This is another generalization that doesn't hold up in this particular situation.
This trailer park cost $830 a month 5 years ago.
Don't paint this as 'being cruel to humans' and 'human beings need a place to live'. Yes there are a lot of rough edges, but this idea that rising housing costs due to market pressures are some sort of inhuman dynamic in this extreme outlier situation isn't reasonable. People might have to move and ideally they would get some sort of money to help them do it as a deal with the developers.
To think that the way something was is the way it needs to be in the future is irrational.