Heard the same arguments from city officials in Chicago. I got involved with affordable housing activists when our Buddhist temple’s neighborhood (Uptown) was rapidly gentrifying - families and middle/low income renters pushed out for luxury micro-unit high rises
Same here in Louisville. Except our mayor is a developer. And now that the Supreme Court has said it's totally fine to put people in jail for being unhoused, our fun new state law should start showing results as soon as they begin enforcing it here. By results I mean more people dying in the jail, usually suicide but all kinds of lovely inexplicable ways along with predictable deaths from overdose etc. I love how they just insist on banging the trickle down housing drum as if housing were the one place that bullshit theory has worked. Except it hasn't. Ever.
That's what I'm worried about. I'm also afraid the FOP here is deliberately trying to run out the clock on the DOJ consent decree until after the election or very near. This mayor is a Democrat but he's going to let them do it. Doesn't Cincy have a progressive mayor (relatively) now?
Housing people isn't profitable. Feeding people isn't profitable. Peace isn't profitable. I blame capitalism.
Heard the same arguments from city officials in Chicago. I got involved with affordable housing activists when our Buddhist temple’s neighborhood (Uptown) was rapidly gentrifying - families and middle/low income renters pushed out for luxury micro-unit high rises
Same here in Louisville. Except our mayor is a developer. And now that the Supreme Court has said it's totally fine to put people in jail for being unhoused, our fun new state law should start showing results as soon as they begin enforcing it here. By results I mean more people dying in the jail, usually suicide but all kinds of lovely inexplicable ways along with predictable deaths from overdose etc. I love how they just insist on banging the trickle down housing drum as if housing were the one place that bullshit theory has worked. Except it hasn't. Ever.
Really devastating combination of events.
That's what I'm worried about. I'm also afraid the FOP here is deliberately trying to run out the clock on the DOJ consent decree until after the election or very near. This mayor is a Democrat but he's going to let them do it. Doesn't Cincy have a progressive mayor (relatively) now?