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AZLD4Candidate

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5. The Xi Jinping method for measuring youth unemployment, homelessness, covid victims, and bank failures

Reply to Midnight Writer (Reply #1)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 02:25 PM

Dec 27

The VAT solution to social problems, since my wife is convinced that China has no sales tax because sales tax is included in the price, unlike here where it's added at the end.

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Homelessness rates jumped by double-digits in 2024 as Americans battled to afford housing [View all] BumRushDaShow Dec 27 OP

Trump will fix it! Simply stop counting the homeless and. like a miracle, the problem will go away. Midnight Writer Dec 27 #1

The Xi Jinping method for measuring youth unemployment, homelessness, covid victims, and bank failures AZLD4Candidate Dec 27 #5

Man DeepWinter Dec 30 #28

Reminds me of Scrooge! Ziggysmom Dec 28 #17

"...people are essentially falling off the back of the wagon." CrispyQ Dec 27 #2

The free market leaves it to KT2000 Dec 27 #3

State leges and 99% of congresscritters are clueless on this important subject. Boomerproud Dec 27 #4

I'm sure the new admin, congress and senate will jump on fixing this. :/ C Moon Dec 27 #6

A 33% increase in last 2 years: Jan 2022: 580k, Jan 2023: 650k, Jan 2024: 771.8k nmmi Dec 27 #7

We need to regulate short term rentals. LisaM Dec 27 #8

I live next door to one gypsy11 Dec 28 #19

Reuters - Some more reasons from the report. Also, Black homelessness rate: 2.7 times the rate of all demographics nmmi Dec 27 #9

I'm sure population growth has nothing to do with this Mysterian Dec 27 #10

But you also have an entire home building industry BumRushDaShow Dec 27 #11

How completely unAmerican! OldBaldy1701E Dec 27 #12

LOL BumRushDaShow Dec 27 #14

Increasing shelter capacities should be step one HereForTheParty Dec 27 #13

NBC News - Some excerpts with info I haven't seen in the other sources nmmi Dec 27 #15

Didn't help the election outcome oldmanlynn Dec 28 #16

If we want to be serious about increasing housing supply then... NNguyenMD Dec 28 #18

Start with regulating STRs gypsy11 Dec 28 #20

I cannot get my friends to boycott Airbnb. LisaM Dec 28 #21

People like the convenience gypsy11 Dec 28 #22

They're screwing their friends. LisaM Dec 28 #23

We are elderly and middle class. However, the escrow on our mortgage increased dramatically this past year and I can't CTyankee Dec 29 #24

Kick ck4829 Dec 30 #25

But nothing in the floods, mudslides, fires , hurricanes, tornadeos.... Historic NY Dec 30 #26

Are short term rentals also tax shelters? delisen Dec 30 #27

This includes asylum seekers living in hotels, not just more people on the streets & in shelters mathematic Dec 30 #29

Entire villages have spring up Unladen Swallow Dec 30 #30

Megalomaniacs added food and shelter to their bottom line Marthe48 Dec 31 #31