• verdigris
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    2 days ago

    I don’t love the implication that those displaced by disaster are somehow different than “normal” houseless people, though I’m sure that wasn’t the intent behind the meme.

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      2 days ago

      Well most of them were living in million dollar plus homes in this case, so they are very different then people who were left homeless in Appalachia due to Helene.

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          19 hours ago

          Take a spin around Zillow of the areas that have burned. Only once you get down towards Santa Monica do you see houses below 1mil. Pasadena has more homes under 1mil towards the south, but the majority of both areas are 1mil+ homes.

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            Cool, now look at the median income. Just because housing is unaffordable and people are burdened with lifelong debt just because they exist doesn’t mean they deserve to lose everything in a fire. You’re acting like everyone is a fucking Hollywood director or something and it’s really mean and insensitive.

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        17 hours ago

        Speaking of Helene, who knew there were so many gays in Appalachia?

        /s

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        2 days ago

        Which honestly might ACTUALLY force insurance reform because this time it’s not the poors who are suffering.

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      I think it’s more about “these rich people will finally get some little taste of how hard it is to live without a home.”

      Except some of them won’t. Those who are truly wealthy will already have other houses, or be able to buy or rent a temporary home while waiting to rebuild. If they already had empathy they’ll realize how comparably " inconvenient" rather than"desperate" their situation is. The others will whine, and use it as a reason to be even shittier to the homeless.

      There’s a lot of people also who aren’t wealthy, they have just owned a house in the Palisades from way back when it wasn’t so expensive, or lived in the trailer park. They too already have attitudes re homeless people, which may or may not evolve.

      I think anyone who’s unhoused, it’s the result of a disaster, whether a public or private one.