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Arizona's problem, imho, is the influx of Californians who have sold their million dollar houses which would have been a 350K house pre influx, driving housing prices for the equivalent house to $500K.  Prices people out of the housing market and into the rental market. So the demand for rental is increasing causing an increase in pricing.  This increase causing those who can't afford it to either team up or move or be homeless.

It really is a vicious cycle with no end in sight unless California does something about the reason they people are fleeing.

Hey now, they've done a good job of changing Arizona!


Probably too late. The train has left the station.

Nobody lives here anymore. It's too crowded.

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I was amazed when I saw people starting to rent shared bedrooms. 
It's alarming. 

Very.  

Many apartments no longer have an office.  They have a phone number of the company with hundreds? of properties across the country.
No one to give you a quick price quote or ask questions important to you, just a shut-down office and that phone number.

Every single dip in housing prices = gobbled up by companies

The wealthy/corporations take advantage of every opportunity while the masses don't even know there's an opportunity (and the ones who do have no way of taking advantage). 

Actions don't have to be illegal to be unethical.  And even when you have the right to do something doesn't mean you should.  I don't even fault the wealthy really, but the system in place promotes a snowball effect in wealth.  
I could be wrong, but I feel like turning $1 million into $10 million used to be difficult and risky, but nowadays, it always seems inevitable.

Arizona's problem, imho, is the influx of Californians who have sold their million dollar houses which would have been a 350K house pre influx, driving housing prices for the equivalent house to $500K.  Prices people out of the housing market and into the rental market. So the demand for rental is increasing causing an increase in pricing.  This increase causing those who can't afford it to either team up or move or be homeless.

It really is a vicious cycle with no end in sight unless California does something about the reason they people are fleeing.

What you have described is basic capitalism in action. People leave expensive places for cheaper places. Fallout happens.

That's what the mental institutions were for, but that was inhumane.

As if homelessness is humane.

Solutions?

Hmmm. If we used the mental institution framework, one solution would be building a lot of basically free housing.

There’s a sort of paradox with homelessness. Most of it is the kind you don’t see on the street, and that sort is far easier to solve. The issue with the mental hospitals is they made a mockery of very real rights (and a lot were unfit for habitation with staff issues).

In the end, a certain level of homelessness is just an end result of rights. There’s a high, high bar to force people into treatment they don’t want. And until they do something bad, they still have rights.

That's what the mental institutions fan forums are for, but that was inhumane.

Solutions?

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