The young people who can't BUY a house still have housing. This is about unhoused people who are in a decidedly worse position.
I don't know what's it's like where you are, but there are definitely also a lot of young homeless people where I live. I don't just mean house-less, I mean living in tents or worse.
It really sucks that so many people are suffering, and there isn't even a good reason for it.
You can work your arse off day in, day out, only to get hit by someone driving drunk. Then, you get stuck on insufficient disability payments, even through you had no fault in what happened to you. Even if you manage get a decent court payout in a good country, you're still probably looking at a lot of expenses accessibility-wise (ESPECIALLY if you live somewhere like the US.) A lot of that stuff isn't cheap. Plus, you would have to try to make that payment last for the rest of your life. Food, bills, rent, clothing, and more would all still be costs you would have.
It sucks that so many people push back against any kind of support for these individuals. It really makes you wonder what they would do if they woke up with the shoe on the other foot.
the people complaining they can't buy a house aren't the unhoused crowd to begin with.
If it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
That's true but it doesn't change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn't an unhoused person.
That's true, but that person wasn't me.
I wasn't defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.
The young people who can't BUY a house still have housing. This is about unhoused people who are in a decidedly worse position.
I don't know what's it's like where you are, but there are definitely also a lot of young homeless people where I live. I don't just mean house-less, I mean living in tents or worse.
It really sucks that so many people are suffering, and there isn't even a good reason for it.
You can work your arse off day in, day out, only to get hit by someone driving drunk. Then, you get stuck on insufficient disability payments, even through you had no fault in what happened to you. Even if you manage get a decent court payout in a good country, you're still probably looking at a lot of expenses accessibility-wise (ESPECIALLY if you live somewhere like the US.) A lot of that stuff isn't cheap. Plus, you would have to try to make that payment last for the rest of your life. Food, bills, rent, clothing, and more would all still be costs you would have.
It sucks that so many people push back against any kind of support for these individuals. It really makes you wonder what they would do if they woke up with the shoe on the other foot.
the people complaining they can't buy a house aren't the unhoused crowd to begin with.
If it was easier to buy a house, rent would likely also be lower, due the lower demand.
That's true but it doesn't change my point which is that the person complaining they cannot afford to buy a home isn't an unhoused person.
That's true, but that person wasn't me.
I wasn't defending their comment. I was making a factual statement.