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Churches were the safety net. They took care of the poor and provided mental support for all. In that capacity giving 10% makes sense. They no longer serve that role, at least not not a large scale.
Absolutely. And if the state were offering that safety net earnestly there would be no need for anyone like the church to offer it today. But when the church stopped being the public safety net, the bottom end of housing significantly just dropped out.
We had the idiotic belief that everyone would be living in the suburbs with a two-car garage so we built our society around the idea that very little else needed to exist other than detached single-family homes in the suburbs with a two-car garage.
I'd much rather see serious pushes towards legitimate public/social housing rather than empowering third parties with their own goals and motivations to supply the thing we need. But at the moment I'll take whatever we can get.
The housing crisis didn't happen by accident, it's because of greed and policy.
Homeowners voting down missing middle ventures ensures that their home values go up. Municipalities are happily complicent because, one, they also own homes, and two, higher home values = higher property tax.
The housing crisis is that Reaganist attitude, 'i-got-mine-fuck-you' come manifest.
If churches are willing to help fill the unprofitable void left by neoliberalism and greed of human need, then I welcome it.
The state can follow suit by buying old motels, putting a social worker in the lobby and housing the unhoused, preference to families (cuz that'd be multiple unhoused per unit then...).
Another great idea is cutting down on jail sentences for drug charges and all other nonviolent blue collar crime (you embezzle 50 pensions, you should get the chair imo). Then retrofitting half the, now empty and unneeded, prisons into social housing, for anyone who wants it. If you don't want to work and want to write a novel for 3 years, that's fine by me, but youre sharing your 8x10 room with Cisco and all that guy does is talk about plants. Get violent and you go to the real prison, real fast. Chows at 7(am) and 7(pm). Your call.
Never underestimate how much of the current crisis is caused by people who think or thought they were doing good. Prejudiced idiots with good intentions is the chorus in the song of history and something we must always be cautious not to fall into ourselves.
A lot of the people responsible for driving the "suburban experiment" in the 50s/60s would've self-identified as science-minded progressive urbanists in their day. They weren't, but they probably genuinely thought they were. It was easy enough to not realize how awful their "science" was, how brutally regressive the policies were (especially for how they affected poor and vulnerable populations). They didn't understand the environmental catastrophe it represented or the financial timebomb it set ticking. They thought they were building better cities for a brighter tomorrow that would benefit everyone.
Just because the effect was "I got mine, fuck you" does not mean that was the goal. A lot of these people didn't even consider the downsides of these policies because there were vanishingly few major voices challenging them. Yeah, there was also a lot of capital interest involved and undeniably a lot of legitimate conspiracy (especially re: trolleycar destruction), along with a VERY stateist postwar news media that give us a bit of a chicken and egg problem, but the reality is that the zeitgeist was pretty seriously bought in.
That's a big reason organizations like Strong Towns push so hard to try and upend the current development pattern -- return cities to slower, organic, community-driven growth instead of large top-down projects. It's because we often have terrible missteps when we jump in and start wildly building all the new hotnesses.
I'm a big fan of Strong Towns. I hope to never live in a city again, but I like what they're doing and think it's a step in the right direction. They certainly picked a giant hill to climb and glory to the brave!
If they actually get some change occuring they should pivot all their clout into outlawing realtors.
There's no reason we necessitate, and then legislate, a need for a middle man.
An app and some transparency and all's good. AI could erase that entire profession before dinner.
Call and schedule a cleaner and handyman. Get tax, land, and financial records. Print. Done.
I couldn't live in the country. Too inconvenient with too few upsides. I've spent years in New Hampshire 35 minutes on the highway from everything (meaning a kmart and a massive Hannaford store and nearly zero locally run businesses) and it was awful. I hate every single trip needing to be a planned special occasion.
My city is an under 3 story mix of single and multifamily homes with a loose grid and a lot to do. A handful of medium sized buildings in a walkable downtown. Dead silent at night, busy in the dayz always somewhere open to grab something when late at night. That's my view of a proper place to live. But property values are going insane and the exurbs are growing fast and bringing with them traffic congestion and stupid politics, so I know I'll need to fight to keep it a great place in the future.