A sentiment on housing
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The sad/funny thing about affordable housing is that cities devote a large percentage of public lands to people who drive and park on our streets. People who have cars and are at the upper end of wealth. The only thing now infringing on that is parklets for business that can stop other people from using them when the business are not using them.
With people looking for a place to be, we often sweep and move them from or public space. I am not specifically against businesses using parklets to recover and survive, but our public space is really only used for the wealthy.
Having a car does not make you wealthy. I was just in Athens, Greece. No tents or vagrants everywhere. None of that TOXIC behavior. How can that be? Why are we still saddled with thousands of vagrants on the streets, after we housed 26,000 of them in the last 15 years? I travel the world and NEVER see the toxic mess that is the West Coast of the USA ! Bangkok, Sydney, Stuttgart and dozens of other cities, have none of the dystopian chaos that’s corroding our West Coast cities. The difference is they treat vagrants as vagrants, not with the Church of political correctnesses “compassion” experiment and a whole menu of “services”. If you build it , they will come…….