It was a big enough deal that the show did a retrospective episode on its "success stories" to answer its criticshttps://twitter.com/chu_bacca/status/819604074404446208 …
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Anyway housing should be a basic right for everyone and all concerns about quality of housing are secondary to the existence of homelessness
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Post-WWII we rejected the idea of widespread public housing ("normalizing" public housing) for returning GIs
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The GI Bill we got (as opposed to others proposed) codified what kind of country we wanted to be
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FDR always thought other social welfare measures would be half-measures without codifying some form of right to housing, and he was right
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We let public housing get stigmatized as charity for the poor and, worse, get racially coded, and that was the end of that
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The recent "housing boom" was total garbage but to add insult to injury it was totally detached from providing housing to ppl who needed it
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Only in America could we overproduce luxury housing purely as a speculative financial instrument while people are on the fucking streets
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Like watching them plow under farmland to grow tulips
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Growing up in SoCal and working in the DC area for a while I got to know a lot of realtors who got their license during the boom times
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No offense to you all personally but I viscerally loathe your whole industry
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My eyes were opened when I went to the real estate agent in my town and a photo EVERY HOUSE was on the wall.
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Their business model is literally "take a cut from every home transition" for the past hundred years.
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