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Seemingly missing from this entire discussion,

- why do we spend like 60-70%+ of federal housing dollars on high income earners / rich people?

- why is section 8 gutted to all hell?

I don't see why it's so shocking that there's no affordable housing, when some of the big old programs aimed at reducing that are a shadow of their former selves, and we spend most of our effort in housing just throwing cash at people who already make a lot of it.

Or maybe people like Zach mentioned in the article do think this stuff, but they're taking baby steps because the political capital necessary to actually stop the above points is probably huge.




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