Building ever more housing with taxpayer's money is wrong. We do not use the housing we have efficiently. Houses now being built in the suburbs and many in the city are bigger than ever and families are smaller. Thousands of people own more than one dwelling. Some have three with a lake home and maybe a condo in Florida. This is an example of how housing is used in the US. Many dwellings sit empty for most of the year. No wonder the more humble and meek among us are homeless. What can we do about the real estate speculators that buy up any affordable housing, "flip it" and turn it into unaffordable housing? Way too many of the occupations of city dwellers is non essential nonsense. >From every form of service slavery to the manufacturing of land mines, war material, oversized everything and other ecological atrocities. We do not need to accommodate and encourage more migration into Minneapolis. It will be overwhelming without our help as people flee from the 117 degree temperatures of the south. Many of the small farming towns of our state not only need more residents, it would be much more appropriate that people move to the country and invest and work in organic farming, house construction and renewable energy technology. Don't tell me about homelessness. I lived in my car for two years when I dropped out to avoid paying taxes for the Viet Nam atrocity. I know what homeless people go through and why. If we didn't have such an obscenely wide gap between the super rich and the poor many problems could be mitigated including crime. The super rich would have us believe that they actually earned their billions and luck, an educated work force, hornswaggling , stock market gambling, taxpayer financed stadiums and squandering the earth's diminishing resources for their dubious industries had nothing to do with it. The children must be completely cared for at all costs. More on my web site.
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