Homelessness is about housing

Re:Homelessness is about housing by jdavis703 on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:16PM (#28094352)

Even government run public housing charges rent. Making housing free will mean even larger subsidies are required for construction, which means fewer units built overall.

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Re:Homelessness is about housing by dragonwriter on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:21PM (#28094391)

> Even government run public housing charges rent.

IIRC, the norm is sliding-scale income contingent with a minimum of zero, so, it only sometimes charges rent, and has costs associated with identifying whether to charge and, if so, the rent to charge, charging, tracking, and collecting it.

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Re:Homelessness is about housing by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday August 06, 2021 @08:25PM (#28094417)

We’re well beyond the point where this is a valid argument to make.

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