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Re:Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of i... by nightski on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:05PM (#29784838)
This is why I live in a small city with tons of affordable housing. Quality of life here is a lot better than you'd expect.

While I visit large cities, they often seem more dystopian then somewhere I'd actually want to live. Liberals can have them.

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Re:Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of i... by bobthepanda on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:47PM (#29785565)
The problem is that because, by their nature they are small, it doesn't take that many people fleeing blue-state large cities to also overheat a small city housing market.

This is currently a massive problem in the Intermountain West in places like Boise.

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Re:Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of i... by nradov on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:15PM (#29786089)
There are a lot of small cities. They can't all overheat. Eventually the supply of blue-state refugees will run out.
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Re:Homelessness rises faster where rent exceeds a third of i... by bobthepanda on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:51PM (#29786695)
The migration has been ongoing since the 1980s, so the value of "eventually" may be worthless to the currently living.
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