A Housing Crisis not Felt by the "Poor"
Americans debate housing like mad and wring their hands at young people unable to afford or even rent in major, economically relevant metro areas...
Yet they don't talk about the program systematically destroying neighborhoods, rendering vast swathes of those metros unlivable, and consuming vast amounts of housing that could be occupied by hard-working working productive young people... but is instead being occupied by criminals, drug dealers, and people who sexually abuse their children and those of others.
Section 8 housing.
Every major American city, even the most expensive, has massive sacrifice zones where housing and rents collapse in value, little circles of what on a map might look like affordability, but in reality, are hellish neighborhoods filled with people who disproportionately don't work and bounce in and out of prison and hospital consuming massive amounts of taxpayer resources and rendering massive areas around wherever they are unlivable for normal decent human life.
Families, young women, and even men of a suitably unfrightening demeanor cannot live in these neighborhoods, in what should be some of the most expensive real estate in the world in easy access to major metro areas, often walking distance to important downtowns and job opportunities...
Once upon a time, these were some of the most important neighborhoods in some of the most important cities in the US... But now massive wastes lie within single-digit miles, easy bicycling if not walking distance... Because of US government-backed ethnic cleansing of productive communities in the 50s, 60s and 70s.
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Why should productive middle-class Americans, struggling to afford a house or apartment be paying taxes to subsidize the unproductive and criminal to price them out of housing, and render what should be desirable neighborhoods, in good locations, often with nice natural features and amenities... completely hostile death traps where no parent would want their young daughter being raised and where anyone would be horrified to find out their adult daughter or even son is living.
Does a society exist to protect its productive citizens and enable them to prosper? or does it exist to feed and fund its criminal class in their sickness?
Abolish section 8 housing. The productive struggling to house themselves should not be paying for unemployed criminals to be housed in better accommodations.
I hate criminals, layabouts, and leaches. and I hate them as individuals for their actions.
If 1% of a given ethnic, religious, or sexual minority are leeches who destroy neighborhoods, I want them driven onto the streets where they can decide to become productive, or they can decide to starve.
And That logic does not change if it is 25%, 50%, or 99%... as indeed it might be in the very worst subsets of some migrant communities.
My care and concern must be earned via productive living. And the very fact someone has received many of these subsidies shows to me that they have failed to pass that lowest of bars.
the right is divided between on the one hand, closet progressives who preach color-blindness and "Classical Liberal tolerance" whilst on the backend massaging and subsidizing any number of tests, metrics, and outcomes to try and achieve an "Equality of Outcomes", even as they lie to your face and talk about "Equality of Opportunity".
And on the other hand, there are "Race realists" who preach ethnic preference and conflict... citing, what are admittedly, quite damning crime and other statistics… but immediately turn off anyone who, not wrongly, believes in judging people as individuals and immediately thinks of countless friends and acquaintances who aren’t reflective of the horror found in those statistics.
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What no one is advocating, is what both, in their omissions and rhetorical maneuvers, tacitly admit is morally correct:
Colorblindness, applied with the ruthlessness and finality of an ancient conqueror.
The moral clarity of the equal standard justifies all results that might come about, no matter how uncomfortable.
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And taxing productive Americans who struggle to house themselves, so you can house criminals and leaches closer to urban cores where they don't even work... that certainly isn't it.
How many Americans are working fulltime jobs whilst living in their parents house or with a half dozen roommates, unable to move into a place of their own, whilst every week money is taken out of their paycheck to pay for a full apartment for some unemployed drug dealer? Atleast 100s of thousands, maybe millions.