But, I definitely don't believe in Universal Housing for whereever you want to live.
Interesting. How do you think such a system of Universal Housing should work? One alternative is to build high density public housing which, IMHO, has been shown to be an utter disaster from which many poor communities are still suffering.
Another alternative is to incentivize the poor to leave high cost areas and spread out to where they could be housed more affordably/safely/sanely. I'm not sure that's as terrible an idea, but it certainly has downsides, including potentially sacrificing whatever culture and community already exists in poorer areas.
I am not a socialist; my currently preferred form of welfare is simply to give people cash (and more cash, rather than less, if they obtain a job). But I'm definitely curious to hear the other side.
Sure, but is that enough? How do you create "Universal Housing" if some poor person living in San Francisco stubbornly refuses to buy a bus ticket to Montana?
Interesting. How do you think such a system of Universal Housing should work? One alternative is to build high density public housing which, IMHO, has been shown to be an utter disaster from which many poor communities are still suffering.
Another alternative is to incentivize the poor to leave high cost areas and spread out to where they could be housed more affordably/safely/sanely. I'm not sure that's as terrible an idea, but it certainly has downsides, including potentially sacrificing whatever culture and community already exists in poorer areas.
I am not a socialist; my currently preferred form of welfare is simply to give people cash (and more cash, rather than less, if they obtain a job). But I'm definitely curious to hear the other side.