If I did not have government insurance, I would be absolutely screwed.
I wouldn't be able to afford my meds as I could only work part time, as I am still repairing my body and mind after addiction, and 4 years of #homelessness.
It would cost me 800 bucks a month for my three most crucial medications. Around 1300 with less needed ones.
#maga sheep are trying to kill me as far as I'm concerned. I will speak against them EVERY DAY until they're completely irrelevant.
Sharpe Way No. 605! Helping the Homeless in America? 
In this LIVE discussion, I react to an interview from the YouTube channel Breaking Points where Krystal Ball speaks with journalist Brian Goldstone about the growing number of working homeless families in America. The heartbreaking stories highlight how the system is clearly failing many—but are Krystal and Brian’s solutions the right ones?
SF’s New Crackdown: Real Progress or Political Theater? Visible drug use + homelessness meet heavy enforcement, but is it helping — or hurting? Sylvie Sturm @mildobserver investigates in the latest Civic episode.
#SanFrancisco #Homelessness #DrugPolicy
Idle and Empty Shipping Containers Won't Be Occupied Anytime Soon
Hashtags: : #photography #homelessness #tradewar #unemployment #authentic #dictator #tariffs #affordablehousing
Why Are So Many Americans Homeless? 
In this clip from my Sharpe Way Show LIVE on YouTube, I react to an interview from Breaking Points where journalist Brian Goldstone blames credit scores, private equity, and a lack of tenant rights for America's homelessness crisis. 
But is he right? I break down why these claims miss the real issue.
Visualized plans to reduce #homelessness https://flowingdata.com/2025/04/04/visualized-plans-to-reduce-homelessness/ #SankeyDiagram
Deep poverty in Ontario worsened by Trump's tariffs and Premier Doug Ford's failure to raise OW and ODSP rates. "People on government assistance programs such as ODSP receive up to $1,368 per month, or $16,416 annually, while Ontario Works recipients receive up to $733 per month or $8,796 annually — both below the Canadian lowincome cutoff or the poverty line, which currently sits at $29,380."
#poverty #homelessness #foodinsecurity #ODSP #OW #dougford #tariffs https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara-region/middle-class-low-income-niagara-families-impacted-most-by-trade-war-experts/article_de7b187d-dd3e-51cc-be4c-7fca1cd0f2d5.html
Housing costs have become completely detached from wages. Major changes need to be made, such as nationwide rent control, punishing taxation on real estate speculation/house flipping, forcing banks to stop snowwashing (already illegal), bans on AirBnB type rentals where housing is in short supply, and capital gains taxes on primary residences, or we're in danger of becoming a nation of renters indebted to REITs. Feel free to disagree. #REIT #realestate #houseflipping #snowwashing #homelessness
California’s economy surpasses Japan’s as it becomes fourth largest in world https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/california-economy-japan-gavin-newsom #Trumpadministration #Trumptariffs #Homelessness #GavinNewsom #AsiaPacific #California #USpolitics #WestCoast #Worldnews #Housing #USnews #Japan
To End Homelessness, Invest in Harm Reduction https://otherwords.org/to-end-homelessness-invest-in-harm-reduction/
It isn’t all about lifting someone off the streets and finding them a job and a place to call home. There’s a spectrum of steps and successes along the way to help someone build confidence and independence so they can make long-term positive lifestyle changes.
Hi all, bedridden today and whilst I am amazed that I have reached 11% of my goal - I’m sorry but I need to push again.
If you can’t help financially, I understand. A share or even a word of support would mean the world.
#MutualAid #Disabled #Poverty #LGBTQIA #HousingInsecurity #Homelessness #cPTSD #Cats #ActuallyAutistic #SupportAnimals #DisabledBySociety
Blame Capitalism: for holding your intellectual property hostage to exact more money from you for a product you already paid for.
https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-pantone-color-subscription-fee/
April 22, 2025
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
A rally to encourage people to think about the need for social housing as an issue of Canada's federal election.
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#yeg #yegdt #homelessness #housing #poverty #socialhousing #unhoused #houselessness #rally #canada #edmonton #photojournalism
Demolition Man Origins: An Underground Society
Demolition Man is a movie with Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone.
In a country where homelessness is rampant and our government pretend to make sincere attempts to solve the problem, Vince a talented contractor and builder decides not to pontificate with bureaucrats. There is space..and he’s done asking for permission.
#homelessness #underground #writing #shortstory #imagine #audiostory #investigation #nonprofit
Count finds 206 homeless people in Prince George during Nov. 12-14, 2024 https://pgdailynews.ca/index.php/2025/04/23/count-finds-206-homeless-people-in-prince-george-during-nov-12-14-2024/ #cityofpg #princegeorgebc #homelessness
https://www.europesays.com/2018263/ As rents rise and social housing dwindles, new German government policies to exacerbate housing crisis #DemocraticRights #germany #homelessness #SocialHousing #tenant
@Dianora There are a few other economic concepts which are IMO key to developing any remedies and/or alternatives. I'll try to touch on the major ones here.
Wage/Rent pricing, mentioned above, is a key stumbling point. Smith:
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more, otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation.
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page%3AThe_wealth_of_nations%2C_volume_1.djvu/135
The Law of Rent and Iron Law of Wages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_rent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_wages) dictate that these dynamics are always in conflict and play, and crush the working class, most especially those who live by wage labour (or worse: piecework pay, see Smith's discussion of this for an eye-opener), and rent rather than own their domeciles. Both concepts date to the 18th / early 19th centuries, but are largely ignored in contemporary orthodoxy.
The "obvious" solutions, of, say, providing free/subsidised essentials to the working class or of critical goods and services (food, clothing, housing, education, healthcare) largely further exacerbate the existing perverse market dynamics. I am not saying DON'T help those in dire need. What I am saying is that if this is the sole and widespread remedy, that the underlying problems get worse: wages fall (because "welfare" benefits subsidise its costs rather than employers paying a living wage), education, housing, healthcare and other services get more expensive (because subsidies provide additional revenues).
Winston Churchill (another unlikely champion) noted this in 1906:
Some years ago in London there was a toll bar on a bridge across the Thames, and all the working people who lived on the south side of the river had to pay a daily toll of one penny for going and returning from their work. The spectacle of these poor people thus mulcted of so large a proportion of their earnings offended the public conscience, and agitation was set on foot, municipal authorities were roused, and at the cost of the taxpayers, the bridge was freed and the toll removed. All those people who used the bridge were saved sixpence a week, but within a very short time rents on the south side of the river were found to have risen about sixpence a week, or the amount of the toll which had been remitted!
https://www.landvaluetax.org/history/winston-churchill-said-it-all-better-then-we-can
Instead, a dual strategy of taxing rents (generally: providers of the goods/services above or those acting similarly economically), and providing for increased labour bargaining power though an improved best alternative to negotiated agreement (BATNA) and coordinated negotiation power (a/k/a Labour Unionisation) is necessary. Both of course run into the Wealth is Power and Logic of Collective Action (Mancur Olson, 1965: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Logic_of_Collective_Action) problems.
Direct subsidies / contributions as emergency measures directed at dire immediate circumstances are ABSOLUTELY of value. **But they should result in direction to directly addressing the rents/wages dichotomy.
A business which cannot pay a living wage and survive economically is a charity conducted to the benefit of its owner at the cost of its workers, or is provisioning public goods which should see a subsidy in their provision through tax revenues and transfer payments. Below-subsistence wages and labour supports only exacerbate the underlying problem.
Private ownership of real estate is a surprisingly recent development, displacing earlier feudal or monarchical rents (often very long-term leases) largely in the late 19th century. Among the few explorations of this history I've found is Simon Winchester's Land (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(book)). And of course there's Henry George's Progress and Poverty (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty_(George,_D._Appleton_%26_Company,_fifth_edition)), championing the Land Value Tax (along with: Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Milton Friedman (!!!), to name just a few. Social housing has its failures, but also successes, including the Fuggerei (Augsburg, Germany, created by the Fugger family in 1516 and continuing to serve to this day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei), Vienna, and Japan (through both market and government actions, in part through some idiosyncratic practices).
Housing cannot be both affordable and an investment asset. And of the two, the first function is primal.
Incidentally, I suspect that a large part of the US growth in homelessness may be directly attributable to going off the gold standard, itself a response to the country's peak-oil moment and reliance on foreign energy imports, driving banks and financial institutions to find an alternate asset class: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21304603.
Next are some more obscure economic principles, somewhat addressed in the mainstream, but highly underappreciated ...
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Oh sure, #Trump cares about #women!!! BULLSHIT!!!!
60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts
By JESSE BEDAYN, April 21, 2025
"Moments after Daniris Espinal walked into her new apartment in Brooklyn, she prayed. In ensuing nights, she would awaken and touch the walls for reassurance — finding in them a relief that turned to tears over her morning coffee.
"Those walls were possible through a federal program that pays rent for some 60,000 families and individuals fleeing #homelessness or #DomesticViolence. Espinal was fleeing both.
"But the program, #EmergencyHousingVouchers, is running out of money — and quickly.
"Funding is expected to be used up by the end of next year, according to a letter from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and obtained by The Associated Press. That would leave tens of thousands across the country scrambling to pay their rent.
"It would be among the largest one-time losses of #RentalAssistance in the U.S., analysts say, and the ensuing evictions could churn these people — after several years of rebuilding their lives — back onto the street or back into abusive relationships."
#USPol #TrumpHatesWomen #TrumpHatesThePoor #TrumpHatesChildren #Unhoused #HousingForAll #NoTaxCutsForBillionaires #FuckOligarchy!
