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Frunk2 t1_j4274f9 wrote

The article said they wont move but could someone please explain this to me? If your living in your car why would you not just drive an hour south or west and find a cheaper place in CT RI or western MA? You can always drive back to eastern MA to see your old community and still have a place to sleep thats a bit further out.

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paganlobster t1_j43652h wrote

>Adding to Judith's challenge was her determination to stay in the Newburyport area where she has friends, family and medical providers but where housing costs are high.
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>Judith's desire to stay near her home community is not uncommon, according to Renata Rouke, director of Individual Homeless Services at CTI, who works with the many experiencing homelessness around Lowell.
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>“They won't move,” said Rourke. “We explain to them, ‘There's more vacancies, there's more affordable housing in other parts of the state.’ But they will stay homeless rather than leaving their community.”

TL;DR she wants to be close to what little support she has left. Makes perfect sense to me. There is no affordable housing in those states for her either, if she was already struggling to pay ~$600/mo in rent, and she also would likely not qualify for as much support as she does in MA.

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Frunk2 t1_j43mk3e wrote

Meanwhile we are telling families to live 2 hours out of the city they work in if they want to be able to afford kids on a 200k salary. Why is it unreasonable for her to commute to her support community, or build a new one elsewhere for that matter? She’s had her whole life to make decisions to set herself up for a decent retirement but now we’re all supposed to subsidize her having no savings while not being able to provide good education to inner city kids at the beginning of their lives?

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paganlobster t1_j444yql wrote

It’s too exhausting to even think about explaining how fucked up this whole response is

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[deleted] t1_j450zms wrote

Fuck off. Just admit you made a bunch of terrible life mistakes. You are the reason why communities are falling apart.

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Teratocracy t1_j44qt7z wrote

Different states are not interchangeable. Massachusetts has unique features that make living here desirable, plus people should not be forced to leave their home communities because of housing costs. We should make it affordable to live in Massachusetts instead of telling everyone who isn't rich to just leave.

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Frunk2 t1_j44uxr1 wrote

The things that make MA nice for locals make it nice for immigrants too. You would need protectionist policies and to limit immigration significantly to house everyone even if we built like crazy. This is impractical being the state with the most colleges driving a huge influx of young talent every year.

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[deleted] t1_j450umv wrote

This is such short sighted privileged thinking.

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IntelligentMeal40 t1_j42h2pf wrote

Yeah if there’s a car I don’t get it. If they don’t have transportation it absolutely makes sense to me that someone will need to be around where they get services, where their doctors office is, whatever. But when I worked in Chelsea Massachusetts and I ended up moving in with my friend in Maine I drove to work until I found a new place to work closer to home. I didn’t live in my car. WTF?

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