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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's idiotic to say that homeless shelters don't have a negative effect on property values. Maybe it is slim but of course it is negative.[/quote]

The property value argument is a strawman. The vast majority of homeowners in ward 3 (and let's be honest, the majority is the nimby folks in this thread are ward 3)  have likey seen property values skyrocket in the last decade. [i]You can take a $20k hit, even though I don't believe it will happen.[/i] It will share the area with a police station for goodness sake. [/quote]

This is typical progressive liberalism. WE decide how much money of yours you can keep and WE decide what's best.[/quote]

The point is that your property valuation is not actually your money. Your property is worth what the market will pay for it. Deciding that government services should be allocated as to preserve or inflate your particular home's value on the market is the opposite of conservatism. [/quote]

Not true. When government interferes with the free market by forcing social justice on the people in the form of homeless shelters, etc in their neighborhoods,  you have the opposite of conservatism.

Do yourself a favor, and read "Economics in one Lesson" by Hazlitt. It's free from a number of sources:

https://www.google.com/#q=economics+in+one+lesson+pdf

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I think you need Economics in Two Lessons.  Hazlitt's lesson did not have a problem with public housing, except as a public works project to create employment or wealth.

"I do not intend to enter here into all the pros and cons of public housing.[b] I am concerned only to point out the error in two of the arguments most frequently put forward in favor of public housing. One is the argument that it “creates employment”; the other that it creates wealth which would not otherwise have been produced. "[/b]

Neither of these is a proposed reason for relocating homeless shelters.  It is not a program designed to create construction jobs, nor is it making homeless people wealthier by any stretch of the imagination.[/quote]

You really need his point. Wow![/quote]

I just quoted him, verbatim.  I think you are one of those fools who cites things that they think will make them sound smart, when they don't really understand them.[/quote]

You do not understand what you read. Probably because you cherry-picked his statement without reading the whole (short) book.  Look at the line I bolded.[/quote]

I am well versed in libertarian economic literature.  You are going to have to make a more specific point that shows you understand Hazlitt if you want to avoid embarrassing yourself.  [/quote]

You clearly aren't. otherwise you would be more specific in your own point. Seems to me you want to hurl insults because you realize you are incorrect. [/quote]

Um, you bolded two things that have nothing to do with building these shelters.  The government is not doing it to create jobs or to create wealth.  The government's purpose is not economic stimulus, which is what Hazlitt was objecting to.  The purpose of these shelters is to shelter.[/quote]

The government is building the shelters where they are to increase racial and fiscal diversity. Obama has a specific directive stating just that. Please![/quote]

Ok now you just sound unhinged. [/quote]

And you sound clueless:

http://thehill.com/regulation/244620-obamas-bid-to-diversify-wealthy-neighborhoods

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