11M households could be evicted over the next four months

Re:11M households could be evicted over the next four months by onetimemanytime on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:21AM (#23973197)

>>We need to get people working again in a way that doesn't spread the virus. We need to work on resolving our housing supply issues. We've torn down a million SROs and not replaced them. We've largely zoned Missing Middle housing out of existence.

If "world peace" was mentioned too, I would have thought this was a Miss World winner's acceptance speech. "We need to..." sure we do, but since these are worldwide problems, maybe it isn't so easy as dropping a few blog links in a thread?

The world has lifted a lot of people from poverty but then new problems come up as standards increase.

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Re:11M households could be evicted over the next four months by DoreenMichele on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @03:26AM (#23973238)

So, during WW2, before the internet when one world leader sent identical globes to two others so all three could be on the same page, they managed to do things effectively with global impact. But we can't because...?

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Re:11M households could be evicted over the next four months by pjc50 on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @06:22AM (#23974211)

As someone chewing their way through a WW2 history book (Neptune's Inferno) at the moment: I think the presence of external enemies mattered hugely. As it did during the cold war. Those in charge actually needed the effort and bodies of the public, for material war-fighting purposes. That drove nation-building solidarity efforts.

It also forced a certain amount of pragmatism; useless ideologues whose plans failed could get replaced rather than promoted, and at the middle ranks there was even the possibility of them getting themselves killed.

America in the present day is consumed with imaginary internal enemies, which is why it's deploying troops on the streets.

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