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If you can I recommend kicking in money as well

He's trying to deal with his own previous statement, which implied that Blacks can only aspire to holding some kinds of jobs.

Ending the state bans on miscegenation had consequences.

It's a gift link, so you shouldn't hit the paywall if you've got javascript enabled and aren't running a browser extension which strips off the gift token.

TL;DR; It's due to brain damage.

There are lots of policy positions; he just doesn't want to own up to them.

They're at 95%+ in Los Angeles. That 5% largely represents units undergoing rennovation, cleaning & repairs between tenants, and the likes. You're not going to get the truly huge difference you want by going after them.

Going to have to describe this as flat-out racist. He's not trying to meaningfully explore his policy positions or anything, but to excite a bunch of haters into voting.

You can say that, and there are in fact some unoccupied homes, but nowhere near what it's going to take to actually house the homeless, unless you misleadingly count housing which is short-term unoccupied due to things like in-progress renovation or cleanup between tenants.

There is greed, but the greed has an impact because there's an actual shortage.

Exactly.

Any answer which doesn't involve building housing at a scale which matches the problem isn't a solution.

I don't use that language. Quite deliberately.

I'm making the point because I see others using it in a way that basically guarantees that the Palestinians will continue to suffer.

Or..work to make sure there is a tomorrow.

I disagree intensely. Using the language "anti-zionist" effectively tells those people that the end goal is to simply kill off the entire Jewish population of Israel, and is utterly alienating, and guarantees that you will never have significant support from them.