• nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    The data shows that the biggest factor is the increase in rental rates relative to income. Drugs and mental health problems are more of symptoms of poverty and a terrible health care system.

    If you want to put it in the simplest terms, the increase in homelessness is caused by wealth and income disparity.

    • AlijahTheMediocre@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Damn, who knew the reason they were poor was because they don’t have money. Now watch as nothing is done about it because we treat the poor like shit.

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      5 months ago

      The thing that causes a rise in rents is a mismatch between supply and demand.

      The thing that causes the restricted supply the the government constantly and continually cracking down to suppress new housing construction.

      Zoning laws have gone far beyond their useful purview and are now gerrymandered to protect the property values of wealthy people.