Sometimes the point of one’s manifest existence is to ultimately serve as a gravitational void, a shorthand proof, invoked to warn against replication.
@twtrrr I see race as an intentional red herring on this subject, invoked by conservatives as performative gotcha whataboutism.
To me it’s primarily a matter of cultural acknowledgement and respect, with a goal of promoting and embracing diversity.
The systemic faults are orthogonal.
@AmandaRishworth@BCAcomau@australian Carving out special cases for marginalised and vulnerable cohorts is an admission of abject policy failure.
Employment, education, housing and every other component of subsistence should never be encrusted with qualifiers.
@twtrrr@Kate_Hamley@HomelessnessNSW That’s my point, as long as they behave in this way, threatening and inflicting homelessness is effectively a tenable position for them to hold.
Call it what it truly is, don’t let them drive the narrative.
@twtrrr@_SocialDemocrat@Kate_Hamley@HomelessnessNSW Any policy, or confluence of policies, which tolerates the threat or infliction of homelessness as an acceptable outcome, should be politically untenable.
The manifestation of profit should always be subservient to the provision of subsistence.
@_SocialDemocrat Where, precisely, did I invoke the string ‘capitalist’?
These interactions betray an apparent propensity to fire from the hip ahead of ingesting what is being replied to. I welcome constructive dialogue, but request a modicum of comprehension with contributions.
@Judith54Nunn@twtrrr@_SocialDemocrat@Kate_Hamley@HomelessnessNSW In healthy markets, subsidies are rare and ephemeral. The fact anyone is dependent on it for more than short-term relief betrays the fact our housing market is chronically broken. It should be a tool available during crisis, but ultimately the market should be weened off it.
@_SocialDemocrat@twtrrr@Kate_Hamley@HomelessnessNSW That was precisely my fundamental point. I was agreeing with you, that as an immediate action it should be increased, but as a long term policy it shouldn’t be necessary nor exist.
Relying on rent for the provision of long-term primary residence should be politically untenable.