"People who have the 🌐 emoji in their display name or bio use it to signal to each another that they're in the Epstein flight logs"
This guy should lose his home since it serves a socially useful purpose.
Evictions are unhappy things but [...] housing markets don't work well without them.
This isn't an argument for evictions, it's an argument against housing markets.
Evictions are socially useful? Where does this guy think evicted people go?
I once attended a public hearing on rising rent prices, in which a spokesman for our resident Evil Real Estate Company argued that people not being able to make rent and/or getting evicted "kept neighborhoods dynamic and lively."
Unless someone is the type of rich that can afford a helicopter to fly over the slums then they better hope to god these evictions don't happen. Like I don't care if they don't have leftist bone in their body, petite bouge should ask themselves where they think all the extra encampments are going to go.
The homeless just vaporize into air like everything else capitalism touches right?
Because housing markets wouldn't work without them. Can't you read?
Extending the eviction moratorium is a bad idea.
Yeah! No more stopgaps! Free fucking housing!
It can’t go on forever, as much as the DSA would like it to.
HELL YEAH YOU TELL THOSE SUCCDEMS
Evictions are unhappy things
Uh okay kinda weird way of saying that
...but they serve a socially useful purpose
....
...and housing markets don’t work well without them.
Wall, please.
Not trying to play devils advocate here, but what is the actual response to this? Obviously the wording of it is sickening and the way he reduces evictions to being "unhappy things" that ultimate "serve a socially useful purpose" is disgusting, but the last part, what is the counter to that?
if homelessness is socially useful then that society must be destroyed
What socially useful purpose?
"We need markets to provide housing this is an unfortunate side effect"
Sounds like this is not a good solution for housing human beings.
"Gommies no food"
There, I did it for you
"housing markets don't work well without them" implies that the current housing market, in which a handful of banks and firms like Blackrock own 15x the number of houses as there are homeless people, is working well. Also the landlord-tenant relationship is inherently parasitic and only "socially useful" for the parasite. Fuck this guy.
You shove them in a locker until they admit that withholding necessities is abusive.
There isn’t any “socially useful purpose”, assuming that what he means is that evictions will increase supply, driving down home prices and making it more affordable for renters. The housing market doesn’t follow the conventional supply/demand rules as other commodities since 1) demand is highly inelastic and 2) the ownership class can and does artificially limit supply by lobbying to stop new developments, or simply holding properties vacant until someone willing to pay whatever price they’re charging comes along (doing this keeps property values high).
Having a society that intentionally creates situations where a person is unhoused against their will is not a good thing and should be fought against by any means up to and including removing housing from being allotted based on markets.
https://twitter.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1422955034132819973 lots of dunks and a huge ratio in that thread btw lmao
Landlords should be lucky we're even allowing them to live in the country at this point. They need to realize that the eviction moratorium is an overly generous compromise for what the alternative is.
