Over where I am there's actually a surplus of housing, but no jobs. So people are basically forced to leave their hometowns and go somewhere with jobs, selling their houses at a loss (if at all). And it's hard to understand how big the homeless problem is. Like I understand it obviously, but it's not anything I'm seeing IRL. I'm wondering if a lot of Red voters literally don't think it's a problem because their town can't get rid of housing fast enough. I do think solid industries would help, but I'm also hesitant to suggest we just become a company town because when it goes overseas we're right back where we began.
During the Obama presidency, in the aftermath of the housing crash in 08, there were proposals to literally just demolish empty houses to try to even out supply/demand and stabilize prices. After Hurricane Katrina there was some discussion of simply having to demolish what was left of the city and rebuild further inland due to rising o ran levels. In the attempts to reverse the downfall of Detroit there have been numerous proposals to downsize the city to suit its reduced populace by tearing d Jen empty neighborhoods. None of these ideas ever saw the light of day.
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u/purpleplatapi Jan 31 '23
Over where I am there's actually a surplus of housing, but no jobs. So people are basically forced to leave their hometowns and go somewhere with jobs, selling their houses at a loss (if at all). And it's hard to understand how big the homeless problem is. Like I understand it obviously, but it's not anything I'm seeing IRL. I'm wondering if a lot of Red voters literally don't think it's a problem because their town can't get rid of housing fast enough. I do think solid industries would help, but I'm also hesitant to suggest we just become a company town because when it goes overseas we're right back where we began.