San Francisco homeless sweep was cheered on by the right. It was also illegal
Hundreds of unsheltered people living in tent encampments in the blocks surrounding the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco have been forced to leave by city outreach workers and police as part of an attempted “clean up the house” ahead of this week’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s annual free trade conference.
The action, which housing advocates allege violated a court injunction, was celebrated by right-wing figures and the tech crowd, who have long been convinced that the city is in terminal decline because of an increase in encampments in the downtown area.
The X account End Wokness wrote that the displacement was proof the “government can easily fix our cities overnight. It just doesn’t want to” (the post received 77,000 likes). “Queer Eye but it’s just Xi visiting troubled US cities then they get a makeover,” joked Packy McCormick, the founder of Not Boring Capital and advisor to Andreessen Horowitz’s crypto VC team. The New York Post celebrated the action, saying that residents had “miraculously disappeared.”
The real answer is that people feel entitled to live in major cities so they don't go to the areas where there is cheap real estate.
They think supply and demand doesn't apply to them, and they have plenty of other entitled city-dwellers to support them.
Unfortunately, reality is just different than what they want. They don't want to admit that though, so they just sit around and wait for other people to solve their problems.
They're still waiting.
yes, i'm sure i should quit my job in a big city, give up health insurance (which i have gotten for the first time in my adult life), uproot my kids and move to ?, to do ???, so i can live in a depressed backwater for cheap rent.
i'm so fucking entitled.
edit - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slab_City,_California
I never said it was easy, but it is doable.
If you can't afford to live there, why should someone else foot the bill? Because you're entitled? You think supply and demand doesn't apply to you? You think you're "too good" to live outside of a major city, even though many others do?
Yeah. Thanks for proving my point.
nobody is paying my bills but me. i'm just getting tired of the argument i have been seeing around lemmy lately that wanting to stay in the city (where many of us have JOBS) is "entitled." i think real estate and rental markets are fucking bonkers when they are pricing out most americans. i have a middle class professional job and i can barely afford it - what about those who work in the service industry who make even less? rent is even harder to cover, and small towns don't have job markets that can accommodate many.
guess what? people go where the jobs are. this isn't about being "too good" to live somewhere, it's about being in a catch-22 of choosing between employment/healthcare/family and rent.
quit putting your words in my mouth ("too good," where the fuck did i say that?) and try talking to actual people.
This has to be the most divorced from reality hot take I've seen on Lemmy in awhile.
You say the homeless in cities pay more to sleep on the street than the rural homeless, but you fail to provide sidewalk sleeping cost comparables. If you’re going to be so ridiculous it’s important to be very over the top, or people may really believe this is somehow your view.
Oh boy, we got one.
You're right, but you're not right about why you're right.