“But we also think that the responsibility for the safety of [low-income people] — and let’s face it, it’s low-income people who have this problem — that’s a responsibility for society at large, for everyone, not just for the people who happen to own the buildings where these people make their homes.”

    • timberwolf1021@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      So do we just… fuck over all the renters living in landlord-owned units for the next 5-20 years while this cool new mass public housing is being built by all those extra construction workers we definitely don’t have a shortage of?

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        21 hours ago

        We should let the housing market crash out, then nationalize it ;)

        Similar to what was done after 2008 except federal government doesn’t give money parasites and just does it by itself

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          17 hours ago

          Do you realize how many suicides and assorted anguish such a crash would cause?

          I swear to gods, you people don’t really know how to think things through.