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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

If we can build parking buildings and hotels, we can build affordable apartments. Homelessness is not a lack of resources, it's a political choice.

#infrastructure #housing #homelessness #building

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AkhIL
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@akhil@mastodon.ml  ·  activity timestamp last week

@strypey Aren't hotels and parking buildings built to make profit from leasing them, so they are self-sustainable businesses? Would you pay for houses for homeless from your pocket?

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Strypey
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last week

@akhil
> Aren't hotels and parking buildings built to make profit from leasing them

Nailed it. Choosing profit-making over housing people who'd otherwise be left homeless is a political choice.

> Would you pay for houses for homeless from your pocket?

That's one option that remains after the political choice above has been made. Another is to let people continue to be homeless. Again, these are all political choices, not necessities because of a lack of resources.

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