Sunforged @ Sunforged @lemmy.ml

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The only reason it sucks is because the program is so limited by units available. If the program was more widespread that bar to entry could be removed entirely.

The brightside is that it is a clear path forward out of our current situation. We just need to spread awareness and collectively demand action.

Homestead CLT is the program if you want to know more. I highly encourage everyone to see if there is a Community Land Trust in their area.

We need to expand community land trusts to ensure people have housing. Just going to copy and paste a previous comment since I was just talking about them in a thread about HOAs.

I live in a townhouse that is one of 30 on our lot. All of the houses are a part of a land trust program that owners have to qualify in order to buy, a minimum income set to ensure applicants can pay a mortgage and a maximum set by the average income of the city. The houses are sold at cost and buyers agree to sell at that cost, plus a small percentage of equity gain per year lived in the house. Property taxes are fixed to this valuation agreement so nobody in the program is forced out of their home from real estate bubbles.

If the program was expanded the bar to entry could be lifted. I had to hold off on a raise that I got while we were in the middle of the buying process to make sure I didn't go over the cap, which is hilarious (sad) since we still struggle with my current income. Friends of ours missed out and moved out of state because they were a few paltry thousand over the cap, the work in restaurants and had they not declared their tips they would have had a house in the city they love.

A great start would be seizing these vulture's properties that are compounding the problem.

I live in a townhouse that is one of 30 on our lot. All of the houses are a part of a land trust program that owners have to qualify in order to buy, a minimum income set to ensure applicants can pay a mortgage and a maximum set by the average income of the city. The houses are sold at cost and buyers agree to sell at that cost, plus a small percentage of equity gain per year lived in the house. Property taxes are fixed to this valuation agreement so nobody in the program is forced out of their home from real estate bubbles.

The HOA is responsible for repaving our shared driveway, external window cleaning, gutter cleaning, ect. On three storied townhouses some of those tasks would be difficult for neighbors to manage themselves and kinda ridiculous for each individual to take care of, when pooling resources is a simpler solution.

Your view of HOAs is entirely skewed by suburbia, which is terrible community planning from the onset.

Depends on where you live. Here in Washington state we don't have an income tax, so our property taxes are one of the few ways the government has to collect taxes. For that reason our property taxes are much higher than states that have multiple ways to collect.

It's wild people are so ignorant to how our economic system works and how our government is entwined in it. Then again,

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no, shit, that actually explains alot.

"I can give up fossil fuels, or I can stop slaughtering innocents but fuck you if you want both."

The driving force of climate change is the same reason for the military industrial complexe. Profits over people will always lead to these outcomes. You gotta be able to acknowledge and discuss this stuff.

Not a king. But the bully pulpit has considerable power to shape public discourse.

All I have seen from the administration is explaining how Bidenomics are a huge success, and look at these amazing numbers on a graph that don't represent working class struggles. It's a waste of breath when they could be pushing for policies that would make material change for working class people.

He sure as shit used the bully pulpit to explain why breaking up the railway strike was "in our best interests".

Tried? No. A few paid lip service. If the democratic party wanted something done they would get it done.

When the average person is being told by Biden that the economy is doing great but don't see it in housing/food/gas prices where all their money goes, you can bet people will swing back to the lunacy of the right. When you only have two options and are desperate for change what option do people feel they have?

We desperately need third party options.

You don't even understand that the number of voters doesn't matter when delegate numbers don't change, it the same thing as the electoral college.

But you don't want to talk about that for some reason?

Do you have any understanding of the Palestinian history? Isreal funded religious extremism in order to opposed the leftist secularist political organizing within Gaza.

This isn’t a conspiracy theory. Listen to former Israeli officials such as Brig. Gen. Yitzhak Segev, who was the Israeli military governor in Gaza in the early 1980s. Segev later told a New York Times reporter that he had helped finance the Palestinian Islamist movement as a “counterweight” to the secularists and leftists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Fatah party, led by Yasser Arafat (who himself referred to Hamas as “a creature of Israel.”)

In other parts of the post OP claims to be the pinnacle of political understanding, yet is ignorant on very basic racist terminology used in our political history. Iconic.

You going to provide any sources? Are those sources going to be tied to Adrian Zenz?

Liberalism is not leftist.

Do you wanna talk about super delegates and how they were "casting" their votes early in order to shape game theory voting? Is that how democracy is supposed to work in your mind?

You think a person commenting in a political thread is the issue? The issue is the people so disillusioned from the lack of representation that they have completely checked out. You're part of the problem if you then blame them for their apathy instead of understanding why it's there in the first place. You can't address an issue if you fail to acknowledge the problem.

You obviously weren't paying attention in the last few primaries if you think voters have a voice in that process.

Legit have nightmares about this.

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