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thisoneisnotasbad t1_iy44qna wrote

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Housing and shelter are not the same thing.

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garden_ofaedan t1_iy450yt wrote

I’m aware of this. Those who are unsheltered are typically unhoused, I thought that was evident.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_iy4aywl wrote

You switched from housing to shelter in your post so I wanted to level set on what was being discussed.

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garden_ofaedan t1_iy4e63t wrote

I thought I had been encompassing, maybe I had not made that clear.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_iy61py1 wrote

I think disagree on a core level. I agree shelter is a “right” and we as a society can not let people die on the streets because they have nowhere to go. I think housing is a privileged and redistribution of it is a general “bad idea”

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garden_ofaedan t1_iy61yu9 wrote

How is every person having housing a “bad idea”? Housing itself is a human right.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_iy65qck wrote

I never said that. Not sure if you intentionally misunderstood or not so I will give you the benefit of the doubt.

I said shelter is a human right.

Housing is a privilege.

Distributing existing housing this is a bad idea.

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garden_ofaedan t1_iy6kk3f wrote

Can you please explain why, to you, housing is a privilege? Here was my line of thought with my last comment: you believe housing is a privilege and believing redistribution of housing is a “bad idea”, ergo by that logic, you think housing everyone is a “bad idea”.

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thisoneisnotasbad t1_iy7ongg wrote

Again, not sure if you are intentionally misunderstanding or not. You continue to focus on the wrong part of my statement. Housing everyone is a great idea. Doing so via a redistribution of private property is a “bad idea”. Did that help?

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garden_ofaedan t1_iy87ys4 wrote

Not quite. I’m failing to understand why redistribution is a hangup for you. From each according to ability, to each according to need— everyone needs housing, no one actually needs to own a second dwelling, especially left unoccupied. Rent control could also do a lot of good. Our society has failed the most vulnerable of us. Redistribution, while only one idea, does not seem like a bad one at all.

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