Los Angeles is looking more appealing by the day

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Rent for a 450 sq. ft. studio is like $2,000 in a lot of these places. It drives people out and drives people into homelessness. Being a real centrist, I can see blame on both sides here. We're turning into a third world country. It's pathetic.

And yet few if any of the homeless are illegal immigrants. Homelessness is driven by mental illness and substance abuse, not the high cost of rents.

SFGbob said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Rent for a 450 sq. ft. studio is like $2,000 in a lot of these places. It drives people out and drives people into homelessness. Being a real centrist, I can see blame on both sides here. We're turning into a third world country. It's pathetic.

And yet few if any of the homeless are illegal immigrants. Homelessness is driven by mental illness and substance abuse, not the high cost of rents.

Hispanics tend to stay together as a family more than "Anglos" and they'll live with their parents into their 30s more often

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

SFGbob said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Rent for a 450 sq. ft. studio is like $2,000 in a lot of these places. It drives people out and drives people into homelessness. Being a real centrist, I can see blame on both sides here. We're turning into a third world country. It's pathetic.

And yet few if any of the homeless are illegal immigrants. Homelessness is driven by mental illness and substance abuse, not the high cost of rents.

Hispanics tend to stay together as a family more than "Anglos" and they'll live with their parents into their 30s more often

So you're telling me there are way to overcome high rents and avoid being homeless.

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

SFGbob said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

SFGbob said:

Fire_Marshall_Bill said:

Rent for a 450 sq. ft. studio is like $2,000 in a lot of these places. It drives people out and drives people into homelessness. Being a real centrist, I can see blame on both sides here. We're turning into a third world country. It's pathetic.

And yet few if any of the homeless are illegal immigrants. Homelessness is driven by mental illness and substance abuse, not the high cost of rents.

Hispanics tend to stay together as a family more than "Anglos" and they'll live with their parents into their 30s more often

So you're telling me there are way to overcome high rents and avoid being homeless.

Yeah, there are plenty of ways. Things like taxing the rich more than the little people and supporting unions don't sit well with the Tug cons, but that's okay

Top 1% if income earners are already paying over 1/3 of all income taxes. Top 5% of income earners are paying nearly 60% of all income taxes. How much more would you like them to be paying?

We already have a system where the "little people" don't pay any Federal income tax. Bottom 50% pay less than 3% of all income taxes.

What a fucking shithole