Austria and Singapore and in part Hong Kong, these are the only places it’s been tried in part at least.

It works 100% you just have to do it

Also I want to add to that list some of the Soviet republics, they at least showed you do not need private landlords to house people. Sure the housing wasn’t the best quality but modern Russian housing is just as poor but far more expensive even for krushchev blocks.

For their time Soviet housing blocks were revolutionary walkable communities

To be fair though we have had rent control multiple times throughout history in the past 100 years and landlords survived.

It has always been profitable to be a landlord in New York City, it’s a question of how profitable we want to make that proposition.

Also so many fundamental assumptions Econ professors are political zealots for free markets selling their vision of a profitized housing system. So to say universal agreement is rich.

Correction rent control doesn’t work if you believe in a world where landlords and developers are the only providers of houses. Other countries have shown time and time again that the public sector can do good housing you just need to invest in it as a priority.

But why not, have the government just asses properties and set rents? Like will the market really collapse if rents come down 10-20% sure some commercial landlords will sue likely win. But it seems to me you all are way too wedded to the private market like it’s some kind of infallible god

Lol you are Proving my point, the housing market is run by a nimby cartel Because that’s what happens when you leave decisions of public concern in private hands.

It’s like in your mind these things just happened to occur; without considering that they maybe occurred because of the states deference to the market to House basically everyone.

If you wanna simp for capitalism that’s fine but we know how to fix housing crises because we have an example of how to do it. Whether you accept it or cope and blame zoning is up to you.

We need like 600,000 more affordable units and the private market is not going to provide them, so the public sector needs to step up and learn from Vienna

You’re assuming that the private market wants to build the type of units we’d need to build for housing to not be where it’s at. They don’t want to and that’s why we are where we are. Until we introduce public sector competition to the housing market or outright set rates on rent we will continue to get hosed.

We’ve tried private markets long enough and look where it’s gotten us.

100% false we’ve gone through this nationwide.

Look at Vienna 40% quality public housing stock and 1/2 as expensive rents.

As long as housing is an investment it’ll be too expensive.

We just need to reform The buying process radically

I’m in the market for a a coop up to 350 and the amount of bullshit is ungodly

I happen to work at one of the places in this city that deals with survivors of DV as a lawyer. Sadly I don't think it would be ethical to refer him to us, unless he finds us through official channels. And we don't provide direct housing placements anyways but hopefully some advice helps.

...........a few things to keep in mind;

Depending on income he may be entitled to free representation on a divorce or custody case, from orgs like legal aid society, safe horizons, nylag etc.

He can try to get an Order of Protection from family court, and an order of protection from criminal court after he makes a police report (if he wants to go the criminal route), he can put in an application for Office of Victims Services compensation if he does file a police report, he can also opt to end the marriage with the spouse be it in an uncontested divorce with the other spouse orrrrrr fight it out in supreme court via a contested divorce.

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As far as housing he can try the mayors office for prevention of DV, but Safe Horizons arguably offers the biggest menu of services and I think they do include direct emergency housing placements.

https://www.safehorizon.org/our-services/safe-place-to-stay/

Hope this helps

Classic tactic you employ when you realize you are losing an argument, resort to arguing against a straw man based on assumptions about what I think and feel on this issue. Who said I support gender confirmation surgery for minors, I certainly do not and nor does the AMA.

Puberty blockers and deep intensive therapy are the best course of action it seems.

And yea you have nothing to say because historically I am correct and your dumbass thinks this is a fad because you can’t fathom that maybe these people are a part of the human experience. You basically can just go ahead and admit you lost on the facts because your half ass response really shows you have nothing to say.

Now when we start treating them with respect you act like we’re trying to force kids to become trans.

And I’m not a part of any movement just recognize the continued existence and non erasure of my trans friends.

Let’s be serious, you don’t actually believe people want to chop their child’s dick off, you just fear a world where a kid can actually be trans without bullying and high risks of suicide because they hate what they see in the mirror

But keep thinking this is somehow new.

To add to this, in every other context you would be seen as such a dick for refusing to refer to someone as they wanted.

But they don’t extend the same courtesy to trans people because they don’t view them as humans.

Like if someone says refer to me as doctor smith. And I’m like no, you’re name is Chris because I know better than you you’d be such a fucking dickhead.

“Latest transfad” this is the funny thing about you types.

You lack such historical context that you think trans people are a new creation. They are not, they existed as two spirit in native America, as Hijra in India, in Turkish courts, in Greek society. There were black trans people in the 19th century.

WE are reaching RESPECT and acknowledgement of this history of a group of people who have been spit on and hated at every turn.

Maybe open a book before you assume this is a fad. Gender dysphoria and trans folk aren’t a fad for us:

They are a fad for you right wing culture warriors, obsessed with erasing their existence.

It’s also funny because you type are the same ones who are furiously looking at trans porn, and getting on Grindr to meet up with trans women and hiding.

Like if you want to date trans women it’s not gay, I have dated a few and it’s a lovely experience, just be real with yourself and don’t hide behind this bullshit obsession/hate of them.

Also kids don’t give a fuck, you tell them, some people are born male and they present as female gender wise because their brains are wired that way. It’s totally natural and kids just say oh that’s so cool! You all are the ones making this a big deal because of your self loathing.

Staying neutral is making everything open source and letting the reader decide.

ROFL This take makes sense coming from park slope.

This is what makes us the intellectual and cultural capital of this shit ass country. We don’t lock knowledge away; we don’t ban books, we challenge kids on assumptions of Gender and racial equity and history.

This is exactly What we should pay taxes for and good for them for creating open source access to those other kids who can’t walk to a world class beautiful library in 10 minutes like I can.

This is such a nuclear nimby take my mind can’t even rationalize it

Yea arrest them for that

That’s why DSA runs candidates in these races. If you want change, join your chapter, we got caban and others elected to city and state government and our power grows.

Except for the net drain on the police, the violence, and healthcare issues

This is why we will always suffer from this problem. It ain’t about who deserves it. It’s about the consequences from not giving housing to everyone. They are wildly on display everyday.

It has to happen eventually, but cannot happen until we have the underlying structures to prevent mental decay and homelessness.

It’s why Norway can have such light sentences and be safer for it, they have the other aspects of their society covered.

Think of it as a reallocation of resources instead of creating criminals and asking nypd to fix it