Meanwhile the rich have been posting RECORD profits!
Homelessness rose sharply in the U.S. in 2023, data shows
Submitted 11 months ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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alienanimals@lemmy.world 11 months ago
wildcardology@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really don’t get how the US can afford billions of dollars to help Ukraine and Israel in their wars but can’t help their citizens. (I know war is profitable)
Don’t get me wrong I’m glad the US is one of the countries aiding Ukraine but shouldn’t they help their own first?
abracaDavid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not “can’t”, it’s “won’t”.
No CEO is getting a big paycheck for helping homeless people, so no one cares.
This is what endgame capitalism looks like. The endless search for ever-increasing profits isn’t sustainable and it ends up with the rich cannibalizing the system that they exploited to get rich.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Genuinely. If you take going into poverty or homelessness in the abstract - as violence - capitalism is enforced by violence. Work or suffer the consequences.
fox2263@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They can easily do both and have money to spare to resurface every road probs my.
Idk could be false
wildcardology@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The problem is the military cut in their budget is more important than infrastructure, education, health care, etc.
Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The US being a country that prints its own currency and isnt tied to any trading partners the way the European Union is, our government can basically create infinite debt and it sorta doesnt matter. Very abstract concept that I don’t grasp. But yeah we can afford it, we just print money or whatever. Also billions is not a lot of money, and that money was already being allocated to the military budget, and that money was earmarked to help our military industrial complex which it is absolutely doing.
Justas@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Most of the money “spent” on military aid is “selling” materiel US military would have to write off and recycle. Recycling would be more expensive than giving it away. The rest of the cost is shipping, training and accounting costs. Most of that money stays in the US anyway, as salaries and payments for stuff.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 11 months ago
How about before the military gets their hands on the money? The military gets a huge bulk of the budget compared to education and health care. I believe a trillion or two have gone missing and the Pentagon can’t find it.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah we really shouldn’t be wasting our money, like on the salaries of people that care more about whining in Congress and on FOX News than creating laws to actually help our country.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Gee I wonder why.
moistclump@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not big into watching videos, can someone tldw?
return2ozma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here’s the article that coincides with the video
Coldgoron@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah I know my 60 year old FIL was almost homeless this year.
AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Our oligarchs want large homeless populations.
They’re capitalism scarecrows. If you won’t make money for them directly, you will serve them as a warning to the capital battery livestock to keep showing up to be exploited at their jobs in exchange for not dying in the streets of exposure and police brutality.
Fleamo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Homelessness is a housing affordability issue. Build more housing, fix ya zoning, make unemployment and Medicaid easier to get.
There’s a population with long term homelessness due to mental health issues and we should be trying to help them too, but to the extent the issue is increasing it’s due to marginal situations like someone losing their job or having a medical emergency.
Wutangforemer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There are faster and more affordable solutions than “build more housing” or trying to convert commercially zoned property into residential and all the retrofitting that entails. Also, unemployment is at historic lows right now. You are right, though, that is an affordability issue, and housing prices going up over 50% in the last 5 years (and 100% in the last 15) has more to do with it than anything else. Housing is being bought up by massive investment firms like Blackrock, creating scarcity in the market and thus driving up housing costs. These firms have long term aspirations to create a culture of renters, adding to our subscription-based economy and eliminating home ownership which has historically been the pathway to wealth for normal people. Governments could easily step in to address the issue by raising taxes on any entity’s 5th, 6th, 200th, etc residential property and make hoarding homes a bad investment. Those properties would be dumped like any other losing stock on a spreadsheet. Unfortunately, at least in the US, the government officials in charge of making such a decision are financed by the very institutions profiting from the status quo.
NightAuthor@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d just critique:
Which definition of “unemployment” are you referring to though?
Im asumming youre referring to the one the whitehouse likes to use, where they count minimum wage part time work as employed, and dont count people who gave up looking for work as unemployed.
Labor participation rates are improved but still relativeWhich definition of “unemployment” are you referring to though?
Im asumming youre referring to the one the whitehouse likes to use, where they count minimum wage part time work as employed, and dont count people who gave up looking for work as unemployed.
Labor participation rates are improved but still relatively low. data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Build more housing does nothing when companies and those outside the country buy them up…
Fleamo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t care if companies own houses, they rent out those houses so the amount of housing is still increasing.
Same for “those outside the country” unless you mean like billionaires buying housing units and not living in them and not renting them out, but that is not a big enough part of the market to matter.
Cowbee@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Urbanization and multi-use buildings, change office buildings to residential buildings and enact working from home more.
High speed rail.