The New American Homeless
I don&#x27;t think that renting housing at a market rate, and letting those who can&#x27;t afford it become subhuman, is a sensible model for an economy.<p>It works for the mobile wealthy, sure. I&#x27;ll effectively never have to worry about paying for the rent unless I decided to move to like, Manhattan, and probably a ton of HN readers won&#x27;t either.<p>It works way better I think to give people a small plot of land, build them a basic house, and let them crack on with it. It&#x27;s much better for someone to end up with a home in a state of disrepair and have to figure that out, than have a literal lord turf them out. Give a man a fish vs. teach them how to, that sort of thing.<p>An apartment could also work though the legal structure is a bit more difficult.<p>To put it another way - people who have literally zero capital are capital-F fucked. You can only ever apply a series of band-aids to that sort of situation, you can&#x27;t actually fix it.<p>The poorest people I&#x27;ve seen in council housing or in more rural areas have a hell of a lot more dignity than someone bouncing from apartment to apartment in an expensive city despite potentially being in &quot;poverty&quot; statistically.<p>In brief - renting is financialization, if you don&#x27;t have enough Money Points, you go and die. Simple, right?