Treasury Secretary Says Government Weighing Declaring National Housing Emergency
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Treasury Secretary considers declaring a national housing emergency, sparking debate on its implications.
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Does anyone wonder if there's a (or an affordable) housing shortage? Might be the fair thing to do before putting the homeless in internment camps, or even leveling their hovels.
Semblance of compassion, are you out there? Somewhere? Hello!?
I imagine that it's when the entire country is infested with termites, and a huge fraction of the houses have to be burned. Then we have to build a lot of temporary housing so that people don't die.
At least, that's what "emergency" means to me -- a situation so dire that we have to focus on the immediate problems. As opposed to, say, an excuse to throw out rules generally and permanently.