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A lot of BS being hurled around here when it comes to #UBI - handing #money is not the only way. Provide basic #housing #healthcare #transportation #education #food #water #energy for free and pay for it with #tax on #income #wealth #inheritance that is steeply #progressive

After that one can assess the need for actually handing out #cash

#democracy #humanrights #justice


Why universal basic income still can’t meet the challenges of an AI economy

Andrew Yang’s revived pitch suits the automation debate, but UBI can’t fix inequalities concentrated tech wealth drives
Eduardo Porter (The Guardian)
#money #energy #Justice #humanrights #education #water #food #democracy #healthcare #wealth #housing #progressive #transportation #tax #ubi #cash #income #inheritance

Tom Murtha (Guardian letters) asks a simple but politically necessary Q.:

When groups are priced out of any (including social) housing, where do they go?

And as he says: this is a crisis foretold!

#housing #politics

Ten years ago I wrote an article for the Guardian that predicted the slow death of social housing. I was heavily criticised by sector leaders at the time for doing so. My main argument was that various factors were coming together, which meant that in future housing associations would no longer provide homes for poor people. Last week, Crisis produced a report which says exactly that (People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds, 8 December). The lack of social-rent homes, the increase in so-called affordable housing, the letting criteria of many housing associations and government policy on benefits all now prevent poor people from accessing social housing. In the same week, Shelter reported that the number of homeless people has reached unprecedented levels. This begs the simple question I asked 10 years ago: where will those people go? And what is the future for social housing if it is no longer able to carry out one of its main functions – to provide homes for those in the greatest need? Perhaps a new form of social housing is required, funded directly by the government, managed locally and accountable to local communities. I wonder what we would call it? Tom Murtha Studley, Warwickshire
#politics #housing

A new report from Crisis said that an ever depleting supply of social homes meant that housing associations were using strict criteria to choose new tenants, and people on low incomes and in receipt of benefits were having applications denied due to being deemed too risky.

This was so predictable. The answer is to build much more social housing, and compulsorarily purchase long-term empty properties.

#Housing #SocialHousing #Poverty

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People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds

Benefit claimants having applications denied for being deemed too risky by housing associations, says Crisis
Jessica Murray (The Guardian)
#poverty #housing #Socialhousing

Americans are being pushed into an impossible choice: affordable homes in high-risk flood and fire zones, or safe neighborhoods they can’t afford.

It’s a collision of the housing crisis and climate change, and policy failures are driving it.

theconversation.com/the-housin…
#news #housing


The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety

Priced out of ‘safe,’ more and more Americans are moving to flood plains and fire zones.
The Conversation
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