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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by BurningFrog on Thursday April 07, 2022 @09:27PM (#30952319)
I would 100% bring back flop houses. They're much better than sleeping in the street.

The insanity of "we can't let you have a bad X, so you get no X!" is one of my least favorite things in this era...

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Re:Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes by seanmcdirmid on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:19AM (#30953573)
I agree. I remember the flop house my grandpa ran in Spokane fondly. We cousins called it the empty arms.

On the other hand, flop houses aren’t economical to run anymore, and the drug problems (especially with decriminalization) have gotten much worse. It’s not clear they can work like they did in the past.

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