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General Category => Off the Record => Topic started by: jimmy olsen on July 14, 2020, 10:48:36 PM

Title: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 14, 2020, 10:48:36 PM
This would seem to bode ill for social stability.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/07/10/looming-evictions-may-soon-make-28-million-homeless-expert-says.html?__source=sharebar%7Ctwitter&par=sharebar&__twitter_impression=true
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Razgovory on July 14, 2020, 11:57:06 PM
That's cruel.  You are already down on your luck if you have to live in a loom.  If you lose the loom where do you go?  A spinning wheel?  Not in today's housing market.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Tamas on July 15, 2020, 02:40:40 AM
That's fine we will just print more money to buy stocks and property with.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Valmy on July 16, 2020, 01:57:14 PM
Surely the Feds will blink and come to the rescue before they let that happen...surely?
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: HVC on July 16, 2020, 02:01:26 PM
something something bootstraps
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: fromtia on July 16, 2020, 10:42:14 PM
I'm sure Ivankas working on the administrations response. "Try living somewhere else!"
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Caliga on July 17, 2020, 07:37:09 AM
Quote from: fromtia on July 16, 2020, 10:42:14 PM
I'm sure Ivankas working on the administrations response. "Try living somewhere else!"
:lol:
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Syt on July 17, 2020, 07:40:42 AM
Our chancellor said a few years ago that people who expect to have no or only small pensions (which means few working years or low income), should buy real estate for their retirement. :)
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Caliga on July 17, 2020, 07:42:52 AM
"Gimme Shelter" was stuck in my head before opening this thread, and the thread certainly hasn't helped with that. :sleep:
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Sheilbh on July 17, 2020, 07:44:38 AM
Quote from: Syt on July 17, 2020, 07:40:42 AM
Our chancellor said a few years ago that people who expect to have no or only small pensions (which means few working years or low income), should buy real estate for their retirement. :)
Reminds me of the Duke of Westminster's advice, as one of the UK's richest people, for entrepreneurs which was "make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror." Half tongue in cheek, half sadly true.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: PJL on July 17, 2020, 03:29:00 PM
So in laymans terms, they're saying you need money to make money. And one of the best ways of having money is making sure you end up on the right side of certain people. Or at least make sure your ancestors did.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Josquius on July 17, 2020, 05:24:48 PM
Will this impact on their ability to vote? - not having a stable address registered et al.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Razgovory on July 17, 2020, 05:58:01 PM
Quote from: Caliga on July 17, 2020, 07:42:52 AM
"Gimme Shelter" was stuck in my head before opening this thread, and the thread certainly hasn't helped with that. :sleep:

I keep thing this about this




  (https://i.imgur.com/LjnQbAR.jpg)
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Valmy on July 17, 2020, 09:19:03 PM
Loved that game. I don't know if it would hold up today though.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: viper37 on July 18, 2020, 12:22:42 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 16, 2020, 01:57:14 PM
Surely the Feds will blink and come to the rescue before they let that happen...surely?
no entitlements they said!  :grr:

If people are too sick to work and pay their rent, they just had to not get sick in the first place.  Logical.  When you don't think about it.
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Caliga on July 20, 2020, 08:23:16 AM
Quote from: Valmy on July 17, 2020, 09:19:03 PM
Loved that game. I don't know if it would hold up today though.
I never played Loom so I don't get Raz's reference. :blush:
Title: Re: Looming evictions may soon make 28 million homeless in U.S.
Post by: Syt on July 20, 2020, 09:29:39 AM
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdWe3lOXkAcnG0j?format=jpg&name=small)