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Quiet_Meaning5874 t1_j8tjt2d wrote

Reply to comment by 88138813 in WaPo: DC overpays landlords millions to house the city’s poorest by ahtigers10

damn almost like the government keeps messing up the housing market and it would be so much better if they got out the damn way!

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Xanny t1_j8u2nqa wrote

The "free market" is not going to house the homeless.

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Quiet_Meaning5874 t1_j8u3jh5 wrote

Heavily regulated housing with huge subsidies obviously ain’t.

Way less homeless existed in the US before they outlawed SROs and rooming houses and flop houses and a million other dignified housing options. And now, as the article states, the government is actively harming the housing market making it so it is far more expensive for the vast majority of people. All around failure.

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