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Would you take a job that pays $15/hr but provides housing at no cost? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 6 days ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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You're living in a townhouse as part of an apartment complex. The apartment complex has benefits such as a pool and hot tub, indoor gym, full size basketball court, a library, and a garden. You have 2 other roommate/coworkers, and you have 6 neighbor/coworkers. A Labor neutrality agreement is guaranteed, and both tenant unions and labor unions will be voluntarily recognized.

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[–] 7 points 6 days ago (7 children)

We can't even open homeless barracks in my state.

Are you in the US? If so, you sound psychotic.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 days ago (6 children)

    I am in the US. Are you saying you wouldn't support this if it was proposed?

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  • [–] 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

    People like you and me are kept far the fuck away from making governmental decisions.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

    I'm not going to go to government, I'm going to go to tenant unions and housing advocates and get their support, then use my union connections to get time with the AG

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  • [–] 2 points 5 days ago

    I'm saying that you think the government cares about homeless people enough to, you know, HOUSE them.

    Providing housing is a pretty basic concept, and not in anyway new. We have several types of housing programs, ALL of them desperately underfunded.

    You are expecting a housing program that is much more convoluted and complicated and expensive but probably no more effective to be implemented. Why?

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  • [–] 1 point 5 days ago*

    So this sounds like low income housing. Which they can’t afford. Because we already can’t afford to pay for this kind of stuff in nicer areas.

    Do you allow dogs? Cats? Children? What if someone is allergic that is rooming with someone else? What if someone destroys the house because they don’t see value in something they aren’t paying for? Apartments have people coming in to take advantage you can’t even out toilet paper out because it would get stolen. My last middle class apartment smelled like piss in the hallways. One person was housing wild animals. There’s a reason why the state has its housing set up like it is.

    Does it sound wonderful in theory yeah. Can I think of 1 million reasons on how to take advantage of that? also yeah.

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