I live in a city where property values have increased by an order of magnitude over about 40 years.

Yes, we have a lot of speculators and wealthy landowners who need to be taxed out of existence.

But we also have a problem where seniors on fixed incomes who have owned their homes for 30 - 50 years cannot afford their property taxes because the land their homes are sitting on has exploded in value.

This is going to keep happening as long as governments keep outsourcing new "affordable" housing projects to developers.

It makes far more sense to me to administer the projects publicly and source materials and trades directly instead of through the obnoxious matryoshka middleman system that is public-private partnership.

Also we badly need to fucking build non-market housing.

Analogous structures? I don't even know her!

Nobody gets clean while sleeping rough.

https://homelesshub.ca/collection/programs-that-work/housing-first/

https://endhomelessness.org/resource/data-visualization-the-evidence-on-housing-first/

And here is a podcast by and about drug users where people speak about their experiences with the system in BC and elsewhere as is has been, is, and is becoming: https://www.crackdownpod.com/ Includes interviews with researchers and doctors.

I have found it extremely worthwhile and necessary listening, but it is heartwrenching.

Nothing about them without them.

We needed one fifteen years ago, but better late than never.

Kingdom Death: Monster-lookin-ass turkey.

EXPERIENCE BIJ!

I just think he's neat.

This has ruined my day.

There are multiple copies of this posted in the cabinet shop where I work. In Canada.

The novellas are great too!

They're the only factory still making keffiyehs in Palestine.

https://www.aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/1/11/the-take-the-last-keffiyeh-factory-in-palestine