https://financialpost.com/real-estate/toronto-shelter-says-one-third-of-its-residents-are-students
at least seven fucking empty houses per homeless person, which is actually a lot less than I expected considering the number is closer to 20-30 empty houses per homeless person across the USA
"there's just a lack of supply! just build more houses for parasites to buy and keep empty as speculation instruments! le basic economics supply and demand!" 🧱🧱🧱🧱🧱
lAcK oF sUpPlY
Yeah, let's bulldoze parks and build 300 sqft condos so that speculators can buy all of those and make them unaffordable, rather than just you know, limit house ownership to one per person and fill all of the empty units out there now.
:porky-happy: "Bro, just put your faith in me. I am a corporation, I am a private citizen just like you! All this wealth shows I am a sage, and thus I can lead us all to utopia. Those communists are just maniacs that want to put the mediocre in charge, they can't even run a hello world program. Put in me in power, and everything will run perfectly!"
:porky-happy: "Bro, what if we made housing a luxury for the rich?"
People now cannot afford to live
:eco-porky: "Wait, some people seem to not like this. I got it! Can you believe that the Jews are making us live in pods and eating the bugs?! Never mind that I am making record profits, dumb poor. Clearly if we repeal gay marriage or give special treatment to white people, everything will be run perfectly well again!"
And they call themselves "anti-establishment".
Those communists are just maniacs that want to put the mediocre in charge, they can’t even run a hello world program.
This is not an entirely inaccurate description of myself, tbh.
This was happening pre-pandemic at my uni back in florida too, something like 5% of our students were homeless and living out of their cars.