“People are homeless because housing is too expensive!”

BS.

To those people who make that ridiculous argument (really just as a political attempt to advance a more socialized policy), I have a solution for you.

Move.

If you can’t afford to live where you currently live, the simple solution is to move somewhere else. Now… I know this is a profound idea that may take a little bit to sink in, so I’ll give you a moment.

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We good? Cool.

Due to the inability to sustain a lifestyle, geographical migration is literally as old as humanity itself. If a person, or group of people, couldn’t sustain life in one area, they’d move to another area where they could. But for some reason, we live in a world where the idea of affordability is no longer a personal problem but instead the government’s problem. Lefties, rather than take responsibility for their own high-cost living situation, are now in the business of lobbying the government to make housing more affordable. Because apparently, that’s now in the government’s domain…

They often cite the homelessness crisis (which is actually a drug crisis) to argue that people are on the streets because housing costs are too high! Let me lay out a situation for you.

Let’s say you had a lifelong dream of moving to New York City. You’ve always wanted to be in the middle of the hustle and bustle of the big city, and one day, you decided to do it. Six months in, however, you’re beginning to realize that living in the city is becoming very difficult to afford. What do you do?

Any rational person would say, ‘move back home.’ Do you know why? Because that’s the right answer. UNLESS you’re so committed to staying in the city and living that NYC life that you decide to live on the streets. That is almost the only situation in which someone wouldn’t become homeless solely due to the price of housing. For the argument of “housing costs are driving people to the streets” to be true, a person would have to be so stubborn that they refuse to move somewhere they could afford at the great cost of comfort. And my guess is that has happened exactly ZERO times.

No sane, non-drug addict would ever choose to live on the streets because of housing costs in a particular location. That’s just not realistic.

So no, the homelessness problem is not a cost of the living problem; it’s a drug problem.