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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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Sounds like a lame excuse for not doing the work. Why nobody requests it from their elected reps and city councils? Why nobody demands housing for homeless to be build in their neighborhood? Did you @SSJMarx petition your mayor to build something in your town?
So you reap the benefit of living in town that's presumably not overrun with visible homeless, but you seem fit to give advice to blue towns where I can't take my son to the park because of naked hobos running after us. That's not random example. This shit happens all the time.
You must be one of those people that climb mountains with no ropes. Good for you- doesn't work for everyone else. Especially women and children.
I was referring to you walking your dog among the hobos
Hey I'm all for building more affordable housing. I'm just pointing your that nothing official has been stopping this solution for decades, but nothing has been done to curb the problem. Articles like this don't address the reality of the situation. Articles like this is just a virtue signaling for the voter base. Everybody will node their little heads and move on with their day. The same people get elected and then ... nothing. Me and 90 percent of poor housed city dwellers will continue to suffer the consequences. Mark my word this is the issue that might turn blue city cores into red zones. Honestly Dems are just so lucky that Republicans screwed up with abortion rights otherwise they wouldn't have my votes either.