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There is a book “The Urban Experience” I usually return to whenever I
get time. David Harvey wrote it.
One question has disturbed me over the years, the question of
HOMELESSNESS IN WELFARE SOCIETIES or western societies. I’ve imagined,
if the problem were to be fully solved human freedoms most like will be
reclaimed. (it is my opinion)
While I am sympathetic to societies like the USA, for its political,
societal and economic configuration, I still do not find answers as to
why homelessness in the first world should be a huge problem while the
same does not apply to the least archaic societies.
Now, I do not know whether its contextual, performative problem with
definitional mis-representation of facts (low income house for the
poor) or an entirely medical problem associated to the psycho-
pharmacological industry (mad homeless people) or a marginally argued
scientific descriptive problem (ontological status of homelessness).
No? In fact the economist and the sociologist in tower have written
thousands of scientific papers to enlighten the world on the issue an
economist and all class categorisation touch.
We are not done as yet, since at every low economics indicator,
homelessness rises. Imagine the future of economics?
Nevertheless the problem persists and one can image it is a generated
social problem.
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/bhaskar/2003m12/msg00349.htm
bwanika.
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Homelessness is one of the (probably) unavoidable features of
capitalism. See Frederick Engels, _The Housing Question_. Orig. written
1872; 2d ed. (revised with preface) 1887; 1st English edition, 1935.
MECW Vol. 23, pp. 317-391. The struggle for better housing can of course
be part of the struggle for human freedom, but the problem is not going
to be "solved" until human freedom is first achieved. Quite sensible
"solutions" (e.g., public housing in the U.S.), when implemented under
the control of capitalist bureaucracies turn into part of the problem
itself rather than a solution.
Carrol
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