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dc has more than its fair share of homeless people. You cannot be too nice of they will never leave and more will move here. The solution is give homeless people free bus tickets and flights to other cities. [/quote]

This is one reason why Hawaii has a large homeless population. Stateside cities have given one way tickets to homeless people promising them “paradise.”

In the U.S., cities with high housing costs tend to have larger homeless populations (S.F., LA, DC, NYC, etc…).

Traditionally, cities and states with lower housing costs have had smaller homeless populations.  As the cost of housing increase in those locations, in the red state cities like Austin, Miami, Phoenix and Nashville, it is likely that the homeless populations will increase there too.

We have an enormous affordable housing crisis that affects people from high to middle to low income. People with jobs are paying more than 30%-40% in rent or mortgages across the country.

This is not a Democrat v Republican issue. Actually, progressive liberal city zoning made it worse in the 90s and early 00s. Locally, if you look at Montgomery County or Ward 3 DC, the zoning makes it almost impossible for low-middle income people to find affordable apartments or houses to rent.

We need a “Levittown” for the 21st century but better that allows all people to have access to low interest mortgages and financing.

I’m writing my council member saying that a new football stadium is ok to me so long as there are stipulations that more than 50% of the employees have to hired from within Wards 6,7,8, they need to be paid a livable wage, the ability to unionize and a certain percentage of revenue (15-20%) goes directly into an affordable housing fund. Or the city needs to be able to have a percentage of equity in ticket sales for 10 years to offset the initial investment from city coffers. I don’t want a Walmart scenario, where we give them a big tax abatement for 10 years and then they go back to MD at year 9.[/quote]

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