Alternate headline, sub header combo:
"Gen Z aware of main cause of homelessness.
Boomers and Forbes editors remain unconvinced"
Something something… avocado toast.
I do not fear becoming homeless. The state should fear my homelessness as it will only signify the next phase of my radicalization.
People forced out into the cold will set society on fire to keep warm.
This is the most gen z vibe
Yeah the state doesn’t worry about the homeless as a threat to authority. Where have you ever seen the homeless in organised political action?
The Bonus Army? Not necessarily homeless, but pretty close to it.
Spent 6 years sofa surfing, its less a fear and more a reality for some. Sadly in most western countries homelessness is seen as a punishment and housing programmes stipulate no alcohol, no drugs, curfew. all of which put people back on the streets.
housing programmes stipulate no alcohol, no drugs, curfew. all of which put people back on the streets.
More often, its the risk of physical or sexual violence that pushes people out. Shelter work is grueling and the pay is shit. The only people in the business tend to be the the boundlessly charitable or the ruthlessly exploitative.
The Texas Youth Corrections System has a scandal every five years or so, in which this or that low level staffer gets strung up for trading drugs to inmates in exchange for pornography or sexual favors. Its a regular low-rent Epstein Island that the state administrators know and actively cultivate, but periodically have to run Limited Hangout on when the heat builds up too high.
only some? i was in fifth grade worrying about getting a job and how i’d stay alive otherwise. we need FDR back god fucking dammit. give us another WPA.
In one of its most famous projects, Federal Project Number One, the WPA employed musicians, artists, writers, actors and directors in arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.[1] The five projects dedicated to these were the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the Federal Music Project (FMP), and the Federal Art Project (FAP). In the Historical Records Survey, for instance, many former slaves in the South were interviewed; these documents are of immense importance to American history. Theater and music groups toured throughout the United States and gave more than 225,000 performances. Archaeological investigations under the WPA were influential in the rediscovery of pre-Columbian Native American cultures, and the development of professional archaeology in the US.
jesus i wish we still had that program - many places in the usa need a decent theater or performing arts center
There’s an excellent film about the musical, The Cradle Will Rock, which brought down the WPA Theater Project and started the communist witch hunt.
The film is ‘Cradle Will Rock’ without the ‘the.’ It also has an amazing cast. It’s too bad it flopped because I love it.
As a single GenX, this is my biggest fear. I have never been homeless but I have been very close a couple of times. My rent is about half my take home pay and I’m sure it is going up again this year.
Vasectomy and shack up with a sexy roommate is my advice.
The answer was so simple, why didn’t we all see it?!
I’m Gen X with a masters and work as a computing director. I’ve been homeless 4 times, though I didn’t yet have a masters or this job. None of this has been fun.
The whole system is broken, we can’t fix it, we must tear it down.
Sadly the aftermath would be devastating.
Awww, capitalist oligarchy not to your liking? Eat cake, pleb.
Can we avoid this by giving Gen X offhanded advice about their personal finances?
Get a roommate, stop buying lattes, learn to cook, etc.
It’s too bad we can’t ban BlackRock, Vanguard etc…
At least I’d have my own time back. My life is not my own when I’m working 40+ hours a week.
The way I see it, don’t let your superiors know you’re worried about that kind of stuff because if you’re working for a shitty enough company, they will probably hold that over your head.
Oh, you’re not performing well enough. You don’t want to be fired and homeless, do you?
Don’t know if that’s something they can legally do to you, but I wouldn’t put it past a lot of companies to do that to ensure you don’t leave or do anything they don’t want, like ask for a raise or looking for another job on company time.
I moved back in with my parents. Fuck living alone if it means killing myself with work just to survive. Fuck that.
I think about it probably once a day on average at the least.
I know boomers that are one injury/emergency away from being homeless.
I empathize for zoomers because they never had a chance of having a good time, but this instability isn’t currently unique to their generation.
This is the true reason there are so many tents on university quads - they aren’t protesting, that is just where they live now that they have to pay back student loans.
Paywalled + you clearly didn’t read(Or understand) the article, it talks about employment and political positions in absolute numbers, especially ignoring how population in the US has boomed in the last few decades.
Talk about writing with a bias.
