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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How come the affordable housing advocates here don't seem to know anything about housing? I get that they want public housing for all, but that is just a fantasy. They don't seem to understand that building homes costs a lot of money, lots and lots of money.[/quote]

Yes, I understand that housing costs money. I want the city to spend it building homes for people who can't afford them. Why does that have to be a fantasy? [/quote]

Because there isn't a bottomless pit of money to make that happen.[/quote]

There is pretty much a bottomless pit of money -- the existing budget has plenty of money in it, and you could always raise taxes, too. Saying there isn't a bottomless pit of money to spend on housing for people who can't afford homes is really just saying you don't care enough about that problem to make it more of a priority, either by cutting an existing program to pay for it or raising taxes to pay for it. Which is fine, but rather than just hand-wringing and saying, "gee, we can't afford this," you should say, "I don't want to pay any more in taxes or fees to help guarantee people have somewhere to live."[/quote]

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