“I urge Congress to come together and swiftly pass this bipartisan agreement,” President Joe Biden said, also praising the migration measures in the bill, which took months to negotiate.
However, House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson declared it “dead on arrival” if it reaches his chamber.
the bill includes a provision barring its funds from going to the U.N. agency for Palestinians, UNRWA.
For context, it would cost $20b to end homelessness, and even cheaper just to get rid of bad zoning laws and allow the free market to do something right for once by building more.
I’m curious if you have any resources about YIMBYism from a left wing perspective? I know it’s a woefully incomplete solution and it’s impossible to reform capitalism from the inside, but should leftists support YIMBY policies in the short term? Or does building more not actually reduce the rent for people? Also how does this play into gentrification?
Sorry, maybe this would be better as a separate post, but if you have any thoughts or articles I’d be curious to read more.
Hey there, while these aren’t exactly what you’re looking for, I follow a Youtube Channel of a guy that’s a liberal, but I still like his videos and it does give me a look through the lens of people I disagree with, but we at least share the same goals of trying to use politics for good:
Housing crisis is the everything crisis - Britmonkey
The power of land - Britmonkey
There’s also the subreddit r/left_urbanism that I really like.
Yeah I like r/left_urbanism as well, thanks for the recs!
I’m sure that total expenses used to make houseless people life even more miserable can be pretty precisely calculated - cost of hostile architecture, police roundups and expenses/time of routine actions, administrative costs etc.
And it most likely just that would be more than the expense to end houselessness problem by housing all the people in need. Opression is the reason for opression.