Why can't journalists from British financial publications stop framing this as a problem that software can solve and instead examine it as a consequence of a regressive (and likely to become more regressive) set of US federal housing/tax policies?https://www.ft.com/content/262e2b2c-d423-11e7-8c9a-d9c0a5c8d5c9 …
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I mean, it's helpful I guess. But... it's impt to remember the federal government subsidizes homeownership with a $70B tax deduction via MID every year but cities/municipal budgets bear the cost of homelessness largely by themselves. There's some McKinney-Vento $ but it's tiny.
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counterpoint: SF city, region, state are among world's wealthiest, and its housing costs (and therefore, mostly, homelessness) result mostly from its own actions; so why should other US taxpayers pay or incline to address that?https://twitter.com/kimmaicutler/status/937094441835274240 …
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