They are actually posting no trespassing signs on bridges around here. I assume that means there are regular police checks. It sucks enough to be homeless in the Midwest in the winter, but it’s becoming both illegal to be homeless and unaffordable to have a place to live. I have no idea what people end up having to do, but I do notice a lot of people walking way down a highway where it will take them a good hour to get to the edge of town early in the morning, presumably to get to some shitty job that pays them minimum wage.
They finally put out the no sleep benches in my city. For a long time it looked like they weren’t going to, and I had some respect for who ever was saying no to them.
Thankfully, there’s way too many low concrete walls in this city for them to be able to do that, but the library (my wife is a library administrator) also lets them stay there all day and even sleep in a chair or sleep outside the library as long as they don’t set up camp. They’re also opening up a new branch in another part of town where they will have a sign-up sheet and one person at a time will have access to a room with a washer, a dryer and a shower. All free. Libraries are amazing in what they do for the poor, let alone the community as a whole… so at least someone is trying to help the desperate people in this town, but it’s not nearly enough and there’s so much fighting against it, even against the library. People came to the board meeting where this got approved from the neighborhood talking about how they had homeless people camping in their backyards (what have they tried actually doing about it if that’s even true) and it would bring even more to the area. And fuck those NIMBY assholes.
I’m Canadian. When I was a teenager, 25 years ago or so, my parents bought a house in the suburbs for $130k, they sold it 15 years later for half a million. Now it’s worth $1.1 million.
My generation and those going forward are so utterly fucked. My boomer dad even had to admit it, and says that there’s no way anyone can afford this shit anymore.
Burn down the rental offices.
Small time landlords aren’t any better. They love that rental prices are increasing and generally increase their tenants rents because they can. They get their mortgage payed for and extra income on top.
I know this because I work with people who do it and they like to fucking brag about it. Fuck all landlords.
My rent has increased 60% in the last 5 years
And housing prices have double in many cases. And interest rates have soared.
If you were to take out a traditional loan with 20% down today vs 5 years ago on the same property, you’d be very lucky if your monthly mortgage was only 60% more.
Not just that, but burn down anything that is being bought from international companies to rent out to Americans.
Why burn them down when they can be turned into subsidized housing for the homeless?
Same everywhere.
In Canada we also have no housing, some places have 0% availability, not even 0.2% or 0.1%, literally 0% apartment for rent.
To top this, our PM has no problem with 500’000 to 1 million new immigrants per year. Schools are overwhelmed by kids (classes go from 20 kids per classroom to 30) who sometimes does not speak English or French, healthcare/hospitals/ER are at 200%, people die in corridor, forgotten. And there is 0 renting available to house people.
Canada is going 200mph into a brick wall.
THIS is what’s going to get Trump elected.
