Showing posts with label Homelessness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homelessness. Show all posts

Saturday, April 04, 2009

The Homeless.

Someone is complaining about homelessness, this time in Sacramento, California. It isn't a coincidence that homelessness is most common in left wing strongholds like Northern California because there are a set of policies that will invariably create a homeless problem:
  • Onerous environmental restrictions on development.
  • Rent control to remove the incentive to build more houses.
  • Free money for homeless people, removing the incentive to get off the streets. Giving cash to drug addicts is about as good an idea as it sounds.
  • A thriving homelessness industry, whose adherents will do anything they can to avoid the cash cow problem actually being dealt with.
Despite this whenever left wingers raise the problem it is always blamed on the right (hence the Wall Street Journal's "Homelessness Rediscovery Watch" which ran throughout the Bush administration).