Politics_Observer wrote:@Crantag @Rancid
And the rural and urban gentrification of America continues. Crantag kinda nails it when he talks about feudalism. It's sort of like rich people buying up all the property and renting to everybody else. We are like surfs or peasants and the rich people are like the Duke of Boston or the Duke of Rural Nebraska renting out land and property to peasants and getting money from them.
The peasants and surfs don't make enough to own their own land and property so they are confined to toil away for the benefit of the nobility and the Dukes and forever paying rent to them. It's like medieval England during the Dark Ages in history. I guess some of these rich landowners and investors would call this "progress" much like slave owners during slavery times in America called the chattel slavery "progress."
Well put.
Housing (shelter) is a basic need.
In my neck of the woods, in Southern Oregon, homelessness is terrible, and getting worse and worse.
The fire last year destroyed over 2500 housing units.
Unoccupancy of rental units is less than 2%. And prices are too high for people to pay on the standard of wages which are offered here, in many cases.
An anecdote, one of my best childhood friends; he's a really straight and narrow dude. Barely even drinks and shit. He's run a carpentry practice for probably by now going on 15 years.
He recently got married again and had a second child.
The mother of his first child died of a fentanyl overdose about 2 years ago. (But he is not a drug user. I know him like a brother. I even dated his ex's cousin back in the day, and one day I came by to hang out where they were hanging out, and they were high on cocaine, and I gave her (my then girlfriend) a piece of my mind over it. I mighta been too harsh, but we were never druggies, me and most of my local boys).
My homeboy, his landlord has decided to sell the house, and force him to move out. He's lived there for at least 10 years.
The trouble is, he can't find anywhere to rent, that is at all affordable.
He makes okay money with his carpentry, and his wife also works.
I think he will figure it out. I have faith in him. But, this is the shit that isn't reflected in balance sheets.
He has a family, works hard, makes decent money, but is struggling to find a place to live.
This is not right.
Any time I drive to the supermarket, I drive past rows of homeless people.
I'm quasi homeless myself.
I currently squat in an RV on a borrowed plot in the woods.
The system of financialized housing is clearly a failure. But, it isn't going to change. This is the regime we toil under. Indeed, it is getting worse, as we've been discussing in this thread.