Comment on Has any country actually _solved_ the housing crisis?

• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  True, but they could just decide to ignore homeless people like most of the US and other capitalist countries have, but they didn’t.

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  • Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If they did ignore it, by spring there would be less homelessness.

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• Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How does having a monocultural population make housing easier?

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  • communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    one of the main reasons people are against state housing is because people with the wrong skin color might get it

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    • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I was going to let him say something obtusely racist and then roast him, but this works too.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They literally can’t help themselves

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    • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s not always quite so clear-cut racist. Often it’s more about social norms and food choices. When everyone shares an insular culture, it’s easier to live near each other without having to be actively tolerant of people’s differences. And the social nets that ARE set up are more likely to work for people with a shared cultural background.

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Shut uppppp. I live in a building that has a lot of immigrants (mostly students) and we get along just fine. That “oh I’m not racist, different cultures just can’t fit together” argument is bullshit, and even if people from different cultures don’t get along too well, it’s still better than them being outside when it’s -20 degrees.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I’m sorry, food choices? Are you literally making a “but they smell” argument?

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      • Bender@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Hot take: blatant racism and veiled racism are equally bad reasons for a country to have poor housing policy.

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      • frostysauce@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Do you often find yourself having to be “actively tolerant” of people’s differences?

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    It doesn’t, that’s just a bullshit, half baked “argument” people like to use when someone points out to them that Scandinavian nations have figured most of this shit out already.

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