Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

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Record number of Americans are homeless amid nationwide surge in rent, report finds

A growing number of Americans are ending up homeless as soaring rents in recent years squeeze their budgets.

According to a Jan. 25 report from Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023, up roughly 12% from the same time a year prior and 48% from 2015. That marks the largest single-year increase in the country's unhoused population on record, Harvard researchers said.

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You have not answered any of my questions. I asked you multiple questions and you didn't answer a single one. Not even the one where I asked you what you personally have done about unionizing renters.

So I have no idea why you think I would answer your question.

I did!

How could they help a group of six tenants?

How could they work with single-occupancy renters?

When the UAW negotiates for higher wages, that raises wages for everyone else even when they’re un-unionized. A rising tide lifts all boats. That’s how you help single-occupancy renters.

And then

What would stop the landlord from just kicking those people out?

It would also help if blue states would pass more tenant’s rights laws to keep landlords from evicting people, and Biden could use the bully pulpit to push those forward. You’re seemingly ignoring that we were talking about tenant unions with a national spotlight. Surely you realize that would be different, right? A shitty landlord would get national attention and be forced to bargain by public pressure, and Biden could help. Sure, some landlords would be basically untouchable (single-occupancy renters and such) but enough could be pressured to effect the market.

And then

Finally- what have you done about this?

Now this one I didn't answer this because it seemed irrelevant. I'm not the god damn president of the United States. That's what we're talking about. I don't matter and trying to drag me in as if I am as responsible for the lack of tenant organizing as Joe Biden is absurd.

I see. So the responsibility for this rests solely on Biden's shoulders and you don't have to do anything but talk about it on the internet. Convenient.

Now that she's shown that she has answered your questions, could you answer hers?

Sure. No I don't agree with a premise when it is not feasible.

A bit hypocritical of you, and opinion cowardly, but you do you.

Insulting me will not make me accept a ludicrous premise. If you told me that Martians are eating my eyeballs, why would it be hypocritical or cowardly for me to say I didn't accept that premise when you asked me?

Dodge.

Just answer her questions.

What am I dodging? In specific?

What am I dodging? In specific?

Scroll up.

That question is another dodge, and everyone can see it as such.

I was asked if I agreed with the premise. I answered. The answer is no. What am I dodging?

Do you disagree with this basic premise?

https://lemmy.ml/comment/7824769

Don't move the goal posts. Go back to her comment and your reply about answering questions. Just scroll up, you'll find them there.

Once again, I answered the question. I linked to the question. I told you the answer.

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Some responsibility rests on Biden's shoulders, far more than on mine or yours. You're seemingly absolving him, as if blaming him for anything is wrong.

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