A growing number of Americans are ending up homeless as soaring rents in recent years squeeze their budgets.

According to a Jan. 25 report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, roughly 653,000 people reported experiencing homelessness in January of 2023, up roughly 12% from the same time a year prior and 48% from 2015. That marks the largest single-year increase in the country’s unhoused population on record, Harvard researchers said.

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    Both parties are neolibs.

    It’s just a duopoly.

    All of your critiques apply to both parties.

    I’m left so I hate right.

    I’m right so I hate left.

    So boring.

    Introduce ranked choice voting.

    We could hate omnidirectionally.

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      Strangely more often it’s “I’m left so I hate the US left” and they don’t bother criticizing Republicans at all.

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        You want someone to help you do something for the good of everyone. Do you ask the giant selfish asshole or a rock for help? Republicans are the rock.

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          They’re not asking or working with Democrats, they’re painting them as worse than ‘the rock’ and telling people to abandon the party. Oddly it’s the exact same thing foreign influence operations were doing on reddit in 2015, and Republicans in ~2006… discouraging young voters from voting at all. Huh, wonder who that helps.

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      Introduce ranked choice voting.

      This!

      We could hate omnidirectionally.

      Not so much, this. Hate is bad, hate leads to destruction (Dark Side, etc).

      We should ALL be asking our politicians about ranked choice voting. It’s not even mentioned currently by anyone though.

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        If you are located in the United States, this is correct.

        The left is a bogeyman spectre used to prevent change.

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      Introduce ranked choice voting.

      Out of curiosity, why do people write things like that? There’s 0% change of this happening. Are you delusional and propose this as actual solution or are you so disillusioned that at this point you don’t even care about actual solutions and just want to play fantasy politics?