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Newest Reality

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8. Yup.
Fri Aug 7, 2020, 06:31 PM
Aug 2020

Many of the expensive condos in NY are just investment tools and just change hands for profit with nobody living in them.

Meanwhile, I heard that Ben Carson, (one of Trump's inept agency destruction tools) wants to cut $7-billion dollars from the HUD budget which relates to housing vouchers and low-income housing. Instead, the budget should be increased and action should be taken to circumvent increasing homelessness.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have a severe and growing low-income housing shortage with few new starts on any construction.

The inequity is so gross now that it is demonstrating itself in many ways. Soylent Green, here we come, I guess.

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