Current Events > AOC goes to war with ex NYPD commissioner over homeless living on NYC subways

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wait, y'all got robo dogs over there?

Robo dogs?

Has she proposed any sort of concrete legislation that addresses this issue with any evidence-based efficacy? Since that's literally her job?

jk. I know she's not doing anything more than tweeting about it.

Has she proposed any sort of concrete legislation that addresses this issue with any evidence-based efficacy?

On Wednesday, Congresswoman and progressive vanguard Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez released her A Place to Prosper Act, a bold plan to restructure the U.S. housing system. As part of her A Just Society package, AOC lays out a vision that would take our country closer to manifesting housing as a human right. Her proposal also encapsulates the emergent progressive consensus on housing: protect tenants, regulate landlords, abolish exclusionary zoning, and build more homes outside the private market. AOC's bill is the product of collaboration with the Center for Popular Democracy and their housing justice network, and closely follows their A Home to Thrive plan.

AOCs plan (which well shorthand to A Place to Prosper) builds off three cornerstones:

A nationwide cap on rent increases and ban on no-cause evictions (small landlords who rent 5 or fewer homes are exempted), along with new funding for legal counsel for evicted tenants.

Strict regulations on landlords, banning them from refusing to rent to tenants because they receive public assistance (one way that landlords currently often legally discriminate) and requiring transparency for large landlords who rent 100 or more homes on rent prices, evictions, fees charged, lease agreements, ownership, and instances of violations they have committed

Withholding federal highway funds from localities using exclusionary zoning to prevent housing affordability and integration, while offering additional funds to localities that encourage the development of affordable housing.

AOCs plan also includes other important elements, such as funding for lead abatement, but the three cornerstones above get to the heart of the new progressive consensus on how to solve the housing crisis and we should look at each more closely to see how.

It would also remove limitations on building more public housing as set by the Faircloth Amendment, which sets strict limits on how much affordable housing can be built.

AOC is on record for supporting government assisted housing. She does more than just tweet.

No more taxpayer handouts, thank you.

No more taxpayer handouts, thank you.

No more taxpayer handouts, thank you.

Yes.

https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2019/9/27/aoc-amp-the-progressive-consensus-on-housing
https://truthout.org/articles/aoc-sanders-are-reintroducing-their-green-new-deal-for-public-housing-bill/

1. That's from 2019
2. That does nothing to address homelessness
3. Rent caps (and public housing) have never fixed this problem. When I said evidence-based, I didn't think I needed to specify plans that don't have evidence that they don't work.

No more taxpayer handouts, thank you.

• Eight of the 10 states most dependent on the federal government were Republican-voting, with the average red state receiving $1.35 per dollar spent.
• Nine states sent more to the federal government than they received seven of these were Democrat-voting and had higher per capita GDPs than many of the red states that received the most.
• New Mexico had the highest return on federal spending of any state ($4.33), and Delaware had the lowest ($0.63).
• The eight states receiving the highest child tax credit per capita were all Republican-voting

No more taxpayer handouts, thank you.

* Eight of the 10 states most dependent on the federal government were Republican-voting, with the average red state receiving $1.35 per dollar spent.
* Nine states sent more to the federal government than they received seven of these were Democrat-voting and had higher per capita GDPs than many of the red states that received the most.
* New Mexico had the highest return on federal spending of any state ($4.33), and Delaware had the lowest ($0.63).
* The eight states receiving the highest child tax credit per capita were all Republican-voting

^Get your own damned states in order before complaining about taxpayers money being wasted on handouts.

AOC is on record for supporting government assisted housing. She does more than just tweet.

1. That's from 2019
2. That does nothing to address homelessness
3. Rent caps (and public housing) have never fixed this problem. When I said evidence-based, I didn't think I needed to specify plans that don't have evidence that they don't work.

1. Who cares???
2. Making housing more available and affordable while giving evicted tenants cheaper legal counsel absolutely would do something to address homelessness, wtf are you talking about?
3. See #2. You're welcome to provide evidence that those policies wouldn't address homelessness.

1. Who cares???
2. Making housing more available and affordable while giving evicted tenants cheaper legal counsel absolutely would do something to address homelessness, wtf are you talking about?
3. See #2. You're welcome to provide evidence that those policies wouldn't address homelessness.
If you're gonna move those goalposts, at least be a little more clever than "nuh-uh".

That rent control is an ineffective and often counterproductive housing policy is no longer open to serious question. The profound economic and social consequences of government intervention in the nation's housing markets have been documented in study after study, over the past twenty-five years. In response to this hard-earned experience, states and local jurisdictions from Massachusetts to California have banned or greatly constrained rent control. Nevertheless, a number of communities around the country continue to impose rent controls, usually with the stated goal of preserving affordable housing for low- and middle-income families. Rent control does not advance this important goal. To the contrary, in many communities rent control has actually reduced both the quality and quantity of available housing.

No more taxpayer handouts, thank you.

B-black mirror is happening

That's the old model. The new one has fucking guns. You know, like they said from the beginning they'd never do but plenty of us knew it would turn out this way.

what the fuck, that's legitimately terrifying
is this what getting old felt like to all the old timers afraid of technology?

There is a difference in being a Luddite and having genuine, realistic concerns about a technology. See above picture and just think about how friendly our future robo dogs with guns will be!

What else would you suggest?