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Originally Posted by TheHonestMaple
I think I just fundamentally disagree with you. I do not believe it is your right to live wherever you like. You have to work, earn money, and pay the market rate to live in premium areas. Subsidizing housing is absolutely the wrong approach that leads to undesirable areas that are not good for a city. It leads to economic stagnation and general degeneration, as we have so clearly seen in downtown Hamilton.
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People who can’t afford cars getting pushed into the suburbs either means they have to fall into a debt trap to buy a car or waste extra hours of their lives commuting, which gives them less time to spend learning or creating and generally bettering themselves and improving their ability to contribute to society.
And, for those who aren’t working, plenty of them are disabled and need to be close to hospitals and similar infrastructure both for their sake and to avoid government employees having to drive all over the city checking on clients who have been scattered across the outer suburbs by high rent prices.
Then there’s opportunities for working class artists, immigrants, and entrepreneurs being stronger in the city centre. They shouldn’t be punished when they can’t lean on mommy and daddy to give them trust funds to pay for their downtown condo rent where all the opportunities are.
Everyone benefits when there’s
some level of rent control and subsidization. You can overdo it, yes, but you can overdo drinking water too.