{"id":11472,"date":"2023-08-16T17:28:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11472"},"modified":"2023-08-16T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-16T17:28:26","slug":"declaring-a-right-to-housing-wont-solve-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=11472","title":{"rendered":"Declaring a &#8216;Right&#8217; to Housing Won&#8217;t Solve Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;If a property owner can&#8217;t properly vet tenants and potentially can&#8217;t evict them, then they aren&#8217;t going to invest in or rent out apartments. They certainly aren&#8217;t going to make repairs to houses lived in by non-paying tenants, which will make the housing stock less adequate. We need more housing, not less, and such edicts&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstreet.org\/commentary\/california-makes-housing-scarcer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">discourage<\/a>&nbsp;housing investment.&#8221;<br><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/07\/14\/declaring-a-right-to-housing-wont-solve-homelessness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/07\/14\/declaring-a-right-to-housing-wont-solve-homelessness\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If a property owner can&#8217;t properly vet tenants and potentially can&#8217;t evict them, then they aren&#8217;t going to invest in or rent out apartments. They certainly aren&#8217;t going to make repairs to houses lived in by non-paying tenants, which will make the housing stock less adequate. We need more housing, not less, and such edicts discourage housing investment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[558,557,270],"class_list":["post-11472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-homeless","tag-homelessness","tag-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11473,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11472\/revisions\/11473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}