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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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I agree. Where is this $800/MO housing? Especially when you recognize that most homeless live in cities where housing is more expensive than average.
@an_onanist @li10 housing prices are set by LANDLORDS, not some kind of objective metric that's tied to material facts.
Housing costs what it takes to build & maintain it, & that's not the same as what landlords charge for it in order to turn a profit off gatekeeping access to necessary resources. Housing could be far cheaper than it is for most people but that's a choice we make as a society as well. So i don't accept "where is housing that cheap" as a valid argument against these findings.
OP did not produce any findings. They made a claim without evidence.
In what city are property taxes, utilities, and insurance all together under 800$ a month?