Response to Who’s Fighting for the Homeless In Rancher Housing Battle?

Its been a while since I’ve posted on here but I must respond to this post by hardlynormal. I am saddened by the fact that someone steps up to the plate and does what you’ve been asking us all to do, step up and do something, and that this is your reaction. Wake up! This is what it looks like when people help other people, it may not live up to city code, but what was the intention of city code??

Do people living on the streets live up to city code?

We forget that we live in a capitalistic society. You may ask why do I bring this up, well think about it. The rancher is charging $300 to people and they are willing to pay it. This is what low income housing looks like. Are you accusing him of being a slumlord? well his “clients” aren’t. He is willing to take them in. He’s isn’t a mega corporation setting up housing for a great tax break. He isn’t the government using tax dollars to setup low income housing. He is a lonely individual doing what he can to help people out.

Could he out his own money pay to fix everything up? Maybe he can, but isn’t that besides the point? He opened up his land and people are better off because of it. What more can you ask for?

I leave with this final question, Should the man let the city come in scrap everything and then let people stay in their tents? Is that your proposed solution?