Due to road closures we had to take a detour to my medical appointment today, down a road I had never been down before. The side of this entire road was lined with so many homeless people I couldn’t even count them all. Many were just sitting together surrounded by their possessions and tents, some were sleeping by the side of the road, there was even a homeless man in a wheelchair surrounded by his possessions.
As we carried on we went past many many empty buildings, houses, apartments and shops that have been lying empty, in some cases for years. As if that isn’t bad enough, in my town a few years ago, they desecrated a beautiful piece of open green land to build a ton of houses on it - now I could understand if these houses were being used. But they priced these houses at £800K each and no-one can afford to buy them so they’ve been sitting empty for a few years now.
The situation is clearly getting worse very quickly, as more and more building are being abandoned all the time, while more and more homeless people are appearing everywhere. Even under capitalism this seems nuts, wouldn’t the building owners rather get some money for their properties than none?
I do not know the challenges people face where you are, but why do you not see much squatting?
A lot of places are boarded up, there’s cctv everywhere.
I would come back to ‘the challenges’ people face, as this is where my ‘just do it’ brain says so what?
“Bro those houses are for speculation purposes only, and as we all know homelessness and poverty is a personal issue, just get a job bro, and no it’s still your fault even if you cannot work or can’t get a job because fuck you I need to lick my slave drivers boot.” - average British boomer
potential profit is much better than whatever they can get in rent
This cannot fucking last.
