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Replying to @kimmaicutler @lilibalfour and
Seriously, do you see billionaires philanthropists subsidizing food to *38 million* low-income people in *19 million* low-income households every year in America? https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/usda-to-fund-snap-for-february-2019-but-millions-face-cuts-if-shutdown … cc
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @lilibalfour and
Are there billionaire philanthropists in America currently subsidizing housing for *5 million* people in *2.2 million* low-income households in this country right now? No.https://www.cbpp.org/research/housing/policy-basics-the-housing-choice-voucher-program …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @lilibalfour and
NO. Because only the government does this kind of stuff at scale, while private philanthropy can subsidize, smaller-scale, high-risk experimentation that may be too politicized or unproven for the state to take on.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @lilibalfour and
For every meal provided by food banks, SNAP (food stamps) provides 12. https://www.feedingamerica.org/about-us/press-room/farm-bill-statement …
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Replying to @allafarce @kimmaicutler and
You’re talking about quantity and I’m talking about quality. Low quality housing and food is not the answer. I see no reason orgs like Raphael House and St. Vincent de Paul can’t scale. Do you?
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Replying to @lilibalfour @allafarce and
Ask Raphael House why they don't/can't scale. Ask them how hard it is to go and do fundraisers and banquets, and all of that every year for basic family shelter services, and ask them how hard it would be to 10 or 100X that knowing the Bay Area donor community.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @allafarce and
There’s no reason they couldn’t expand if they wanted to. There’s no reason others couldn’t do the same.
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Replying to @lilibalfour @kimmaicutler and
I get where you’re coming from, but when the scales of philanthropy to government’s ability to raise are 12:1 I think you’re simply underestimating the reality of how much the opt-in (to philanthropy) changes giving.
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Replying to @allafarce @kimmaicutler and
Government is raising money from taxes. Instead of more forced taxation, they could provide more tax credits for developers who build in low income areas or orgs who donate food.
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Yeah, uh, we did that in 1986, and it ended up only replacing a fraction of what HUD used to cover and the tax credit itself was actually quite inefficient, resulting in only 50 cents on the dollar of every tax credit actually going to low-income housing. https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125&context=ylpr …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @lilibalfour and
these policy choices coincided with a rise in structural homelessness in American cities in the 1980s that persists to this very day. not only that, the current administration furthered weakened the low-income housing tax credit with the last tax cut.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/business/economy/tax-housing.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @allafarce and
Ok. So it didn’t work out the first time. Try again. Fix what didn’t work. That’s the American way.
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