A representative of our area's housing shelter agency spoke at church yesterday and outlined the reduction in federal spending on housing since 1970. What she didn't mention was the destruction of unions and unionized industries, the lack of living wages, and the concomitant rise in inequality, which is pricing people out of housing. Cha…
A representative of our area's housing shelter agency spoke at church yesterday and outlined the reduction in federal spending on housing since 1970. What she didn't mention was the destruction of unions and unionized industries, the lack of living wages, and the concomitant rise in inequality, which is pricing people out of housing. Charity, important as it is, can't begin to claw back the ills caused by inequality.
Well said, Beth. A variety of factors explain the current state of inequality, but regardless of why it happened, we need changes at the systemic level -- through policy and law.
A representative of our area's housing shelter agency spoke at church yesterday and outlined the reduction in federal spending on housing since 1970. What she didn't mention was the destruction of unions and unionized industries, the lack of living wages, and the concomitant rise in inequality, which is pricing people out of housing. Charity, important as it is, can't begin to claw back the ills caused by inequality.
Well said, Beth. A variety of factors explain the current state of inequality, but regardless of why it happened, we need changes at the systemic level -- through policy and law.