The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #163386   Message #3897458
Posted By: Jim Carroll
05-Jan-18 - 04:50 AM
Thread Name: BS: Homelessness a Personal Choice?
Subject: RE: BS: Homelessness a Personal Choice?
"It's a difficult question."
You will never work out the complications of homelessness until everybody has been given the right to choose whether to live in a home or whether to live otherwise - making it "complicated" is the excuse the Establisment gives for not being able or willing to do that
Ireland is now facing a massive rise in homelessness because the wealthy have now realised the profit that is to be made out of property
One of the worst threats to Irish society is 'Vulture Capitalism' in the shape of companies like Goldman Sachs buying up entire estates of rented property, evicting the tenants and 'gentrifying' the houses and reselling them to the better off.
A few years ago there was a superb American film, 'The Big Short', which showed how Vulture Capitalism brought the world to its economic knees - frightening
Jim Carroll