{"id":2836,"date":"2019-05-26T18:21:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T18:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2019-05-26T18:21:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T18:21:51","slug":"basic-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2019\/05\/basic-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I<em>n Evicted, Desmond writes that low-income people looking for housing or work are often assumed to be &quot;more or less &#8216;rational actors&#8217; who recognize trade-offs and make clear choices.&quot; Through his research, however, he saw people wear out from long, fruitless searches for decent apartments or jobs. The people he encountered could better be characterized as &quot;&#8217;exhausted settlers,&#8217; who accept poor housing in a disadvantaged neighborhood or a dead-end or illicit job after becoming depleted and disheartened from trying and trying and failing and failing.&quot;<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagoreader.com\/chicago\/chicago-evictions-pangea\/Content?oid=70318054\">Chicago\u2019s eviction problem<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Shelter should be a basic right. You can\u2019t do much without it. It starts there.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that private companies can be landlord and never have to answer anyone about anything, should be completely illegal and never be allowed ever again.<\/p>\n<p>There should be some kind of teaching and self-reliance over services for buildings: I\u2019ll cut the grass around and I\u2019ll teach the teenagers how to do it. Don\u2019t charge me shit. Same with clogged toilets etc. The money saved should be re-invested by the landlord&#160; into heavier work, in partnership with the state, the city (sewer increase so that toilets don\u2019t overflow).<\/p>\n<p>The problem with everything being \u201csolved\u201d with money is that no one gives a single fuck. That leads to the stronger getting away with everything and the weakest losing everything, ending up in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>It frustrates me to no end that we know and have all the solutions in the world and we just let people rot. Goddamn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Evicted, Desmond writes that low-income people looking for housing or work are often assumed to be &quot;more or less &#8216;rational actors&#8217; who recognize trade-offs and make clear choices.&quot; Through his research, however, he saw people wear out from long, fruitless searches for decent apartments or jobs. The people he encountered could better be characterized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2837,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions\/2837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}