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nickradford
on Jan 6, 2023
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Rising rent, not poverty, is the real driver of ho...
Two sides of the same coin really
TSiege
on Jan 6, 2023
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Not exactly since the largest cause of housing insecurity is the fact that there simply isn't enough homes (at least where we need them). Paying everyone more wouldn't solve that issue, it'd just make rents rise further
t-writescode
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"It's not that we don't pay people enough, it's that living costs too much"
deburo
on Jan 6, 2023
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Indeed it can happen, imagine a state in which taxes are higher than elsewhere.
danaris
on Jan 6, 2023
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Ah, yes,
taxes
, famously the biggest contributor to cost of living,
especially
for the poorest among us... /s
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