{"id":24763,"date":"2023-11-09T21:02:33","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24763"},"modified":"2023-11-09T21:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T21:11:46","slug":"build-some-damn-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24763","title":{"rendered":"build some damn housing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/T-Bousquet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/T-Bousquet.jpg 450w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/T-Bousquet-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 85vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Tim Bousquet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for terrific article by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/author\/tim-bousquet\/\">TIM BOUSQUET<\/a><\/strong>   Halifax Examiner Nov 9\/23 (Please subscribe)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Homelessness Industry is booming, and there\u2019s big money in it<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/morning-file\/the-homelessness-industry-is-booming-and-theres-big-money-in-it\/#N1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/morning-file\/the-homelessness-industry-is-booming-and-theres-big-money-in-it\/#N1\">https:\/\/www.halifaxexaminer.ca\/morning-file\/the-homelessness-industry-is-booming-and-theres-big-money-in-it\/#N1<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/homeless-city-hall.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24781\" style=\"width:1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/homeless-city-hall.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/homeless-city-hall-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/homeless-city-hall-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Composite of tent<\/em><\/strong>s &amp; <strong><em>City Hall<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpted from the article<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>&#8216;In record numbers, people can\u2019t find a place to live. But the homelessness industry is booming.<br><br>By the \u201chomelessness industry\u201d I mean the army of non-profits, consultants, data collectors, government bureaucrats, policy wonks, and academics whose stated goal is to \u201cend homelessness\u201d but who have utterly failed. And the more the homelessness industry fails, the more it succeeds. There\u2019s big money to be made by failing to end homelessness.<br><br>But instead of the straightforward solution of building some damn housing, we\u2019ve built this Rube Goldberg machine of market incentives, tax rebates, grants to non-profits, means testing, bonus density, ever-shifting definitions of \u201caffordable housing\u201d that time out after a couple of decades in any event, and a caring industry created to address the result and not the cause.<br><br>Focusing on the Rube Goldberg machinations of the homelessness industry instead of on just building some damn housing already is exactly the distracting rhetoric needed to prevent the government from spending the substantial amount of real money to honestly address the housing shortage.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\\<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-T-Bousquet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-T-Bousquet.jpg 795w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-T-Bousquet-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-T-Bousquet-768x989.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Court Painter with portrait of Tim Bousquet<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-homeless-tents.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-homeless-tents.jpg 800w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-homeless-tents-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-homeless-tents-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Court-Painter-homeless-tents-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Court Painter with recent urban painting<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bousquet Thanks for terrific article by TIM BOUSQUET Halifax Examiner Nov 9\/23 (Please subscribe) The Homelessness Industry is booming, and there\u2019s big money in it Composite of tents &amp; City Hall Excerpted from the article &#8216;In record numbers, people can\u2019t find a place to live. But the homelessness industry is booming. By the \u201chomelessness &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=24763\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;build some damn housing&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24763"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24783,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763\/revisions\/24783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}