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?

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        Yeah, why do people propose minor improvements to this rotten system. People should just be content with their lot in life! How dare they have hope?!

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          Changing the electoral system would be a minor improvement? So you’re talking about some city level elections or do you actually think that changing how presidents and representatives are elected would only be a minor change?

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            On the scale of doing nothing to socialist revolution, this is a pretty minor change. But I’d love to hear some improvements that are not fantasies. Or do we just have to give up?

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              On a scale from doing nothing to revolution convincing the elite to willingly relax their absolute grip on power and let other people win elections is like an 8. It’s not going to happen.

              What are some improvements that are not fantasies? I would say the actually possible thing would be to get a slightly more progressive president that would push through some meaningful reforms despite Republicans bitching about it. Education reform, justice system reform, immigration reform could all be possible Of course this is not happening in the next 5 years if ever.

              Supreme court reform is less possible but still achievable IMHO. Things like term limits and some real ethical oversight. Most people understand how corrupt it is and would support some changes. It would affect both parties equally so some bipartisan deal could be possible. Of course this is not getting enough tracking right now to move anywhere.

              Any form of constitutional reform on the other hand is not possible and is pure political fiction.

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                It has already been introduced in various places. In those places there was someone, just as you are doing now, declaring it was impossible. Then it occurred.

                Doom and gloom is easy, you see yourself win all the time because the conditions for victory are nothing happening. Hope is hard and full of heartbreak. I chose a hard outlook, but I can understand why you would choose an easy one.

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                  I don’t live in US so for it’s not a matter of hope or gloom. It’s just my opinion based on what I see happening there. I know a lot of Americans would like the entire Internet to cheer them and lie to give them some hope but I just don’t see much sense in that. If you think it’s achievable than do you, fight for it. I was just wandering if people really believe they can get it.

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                    Yes I do believe it can occur, with each election the generational clock is ticking forward in a detectable way. Though I personally live in a very conservative area so it tends to happen in the west and northeast before it occurs here.

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                    I don’t live in US so for it’s not a matter of hope or gloom. It’s just my opinion based on what I see happening there.

                    I don’t want to suppress you expressing your opinions (at this point assuming you’re not astroturfing for one/both of the parties) but you do need “to be closer to the ground zero” if you want to be taken as someone who understands the subject matter fully, versus being dismissed out of hand for spewing rhetoric.

                    Ranked Choice Voting is truly the only way out of this mess, and it should be fought for, no matter its chance of actual implementation.

                    Right now politicians are not even being asked about it, so it’s a little early to waive the white flag.