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Colorado Has a Brilliant Plan To Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis: Just Sleep in Your Car

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Colorado Has a Brilliant Plan To Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis: Just Sleep in Your Car

Corporate-controlled governments will do anything except the right thing

Jared A. Brock
Jul 18, 2022
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Colorado Has a Brilliant Plan To Fix the Affordable Housing Crisis: Just Sleep in Your Car

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Friends, you’re going to laugh at today’s absurdity.

But first, the quick background story…

The state of Colorado has a chronic homelessness problem:

  • It’s one of the worst in the nation per capita for homelessness.

  • Over 10,000 people are homeless on any given night.

  • Over 1,000 veterans experience homelessness every year.

  • 21,560 public school students experience homelessness every year.

  • It’s brutally cold in the winter, adding many dangerous risk factors.

And Colorado is absolutely to blame for the problem:

  • Housing is chronically unaffordable (this is the biggest reason by far)

  • They refuse to crack down on for-profit land-lorders

  • They refuse to ban Airbnb

  • They refuse to ban institutional investment in rentals properties

  • They refuse to build affordable owner-occupied houses

  • They banned outdoor camping

  • They passed more than 350 anti-homeless laws including banning sleeping in your car and refusing people the right to rest

  • They allow corporations to suppress wages to keep housing unaffordable

  • They don’t have enough shelters because they never bothered to build them

  • They couldn’t be bothered to sufficiently invest in mental healthcare

In other words: Colorado set itself up for homelessness.

Like many states, it built a corporate economy and a social climate in which cities filled with homeless people were mathematically inevitable.

Luckily, the state’s brilliant bureaucrats now have a sure-fire solution to tackle homelessness:

Let hard-working families sleep in their cars.

Yep.

I know what you’re thinking…

The people running Colorado must be high.

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