Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state

Re:Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state by monadic2 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:10PM (#23864396)

> A federal program would basically mean bureaucrats from these states would be imposing housing policy on the whole country.

Funny way to put "providing housing for its own citizens".

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Re:Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state by bonestormii_ on Thursday July 16, 2020 @06:42PM (#23864696)

I'm for regulation of the housing industry, but he's not wrong that public housing policy is a shit show. What he is wrong about is that landlords actually prefer it this way, because they prefer subsidies to pricing regulation.

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Re:Minimum wage workers cannot afford rent in any U.S. state by monadic2 on Saturday July 18, 2020 @06:52AM (#23880489)

To which public housing policy are you referring?

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