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How about this $300 billion "please stop humiliating me Iran" fund?

Amusing a 3-bedroom house, at average home prices in major cities(Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, et cetera), something like 2.5 thousand houses housing 7.25 thousand people.

Wouldn't actually help to build them though, since we already have enough housing. A good portion of homeless are mentally ill, on hard drugs, previously trafficked or governmentally shafted people, or just too poor. The houses are there, there are literally whole sky-scraper apartments in New York that are empty. Whole urban sprawls that have been empty for years now.

We aren't like Japan here in the US where just making the houses depreciate instead of appreciate will fix the problem. Its like 3 much bigger problems wearing the trench-coat of one problem.

This leftist versus liberal shit really needs to stop. I’m starting to think that it’s intentional propaganda to try to keep the left divided.

The thing is they built this place on top of a park that already existed. Basically 90% of the people on the south side hate this building because it was forced on them and it adds nothing new to their part of town except gentrification.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jun/02/klingon-prison-barack-obamas-presidential-library-chicago

Narcissism...

which one is the liberal and which one is the leftist?

We have plenty of houses for the homeless. This is the worst part of the whole issue. We choose to keep people homeless even if there is plenty of housing. I believe there are 28 empty houses/homes for every homeless person.

Of course some people would argue that there isn't always enough empty houses in the area where homeless are. This is true, also some homeless people are so bad off they couldn't live in a house/apartment without some extra support. This is also true.

Regardless we can house most of the homeless but we actively choose not to. That is why I support housing first as the only proven way to tackle this issue.

https://nlihc.org/sites/default/files/Housing-First-Evidence.pdf

given all that is going on this is a minor thing, but the fuck is going on with Americans building temples and monuments to functionaries?

Yhea, in theory they are libraries and open for the community, but in reality, they are temples commemorating war criminals

Of all the things to complain about, the Obama Presidential Library, which is a public amenity designed to be utilized by the underserved community on the south side of Chicago, is really fucking low on the list.

wait until they ask how many people they can house with the money they spent on the war. or by taxing billionaires.

we have the resources for everyone to live a comfortable life. but the people in power want workers. and they artificially create scarcity to motivate workers...

Testament to how private wealth isn't helping the homeless either.

Trump has gold idols of himself...

Another pointless post to try to get everyone hating one another. Rather than concentrating on those most worthy of being hated.

I like how Obama prosecuted Abu grabe torture whistleblowers under the espionage act that was awesome

$850mil is like... five houses. So I think this was a better usage of money.

The only right reply to stuff like this (if you feel like replying at all) is: Fuck Obama (unless you like Obama).

Do you even care about Obama? Then don't waste time trying to defend him, even if it's just to explain the other person's ignorance about the subject, because regardless of whether you are just trying to elucidate and not defend Obama, what you are actually doing is picking a side in a narrative they are controlling and being a fucking pawn. That's how they got people from the left defending Twitter when it was banning alt-right leaders because it's a private company and can do whatever it wants with their platform, Disney for firing that actress from Star Wars, and fighting for the right of the green M&M to wear shoes instead of high boots... just because conservatives are whining about something, it doesn't mean you have to argue against it, even if you think they are being stupid, don't let them pick your fights.

I'm actually curious about the answer. Some back of the napkin math (aka take it with a grain of salt), it looks like ~100,000 could be housed in a rapid rehousing / temporary housing structure or ~40,000 in permanent supportive housing but the number is super variable based on location. Like are we talking housing them in NY, LA, SF or like rural West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma? Also if one were to buy out whole homes for like $400,000 to give to the individual homeless then it's like 2,125 people, although I doubt anyone is suggesting that. Irl probably 10,000 to 20,000 after a large sum of the money has leaked out due to overcharging and corruption.

I'm reminded of when Andrew Carnegie built libraries but his miners mocked him for it because they didn't have time or energy to read and said higher wages would benefit them instead, and he mocked them for demanding higher wages saying they'd waste it on better cuts of meat or more drink for their dinner

Anyone else see an emo face?

the keen eyed amongst us may be able to discern that none of the things listed is "housing"

It's a library right? They can still go and live there.

yep, private funds mean nothing, there is no moral good in having money and paying things, it is a moral bad because it rallies labour of people who owe you nothing to your own will. All of those so called ( libraries are good but this is the creators personal controlled environment, and it is not good for housing obviously) facilities are shitty ideas of useless people, material in useless shapes, wasted labour and now defended from free usage by a violent state.

Yeah the waste is the labour not the money directly. I think the labour has to be the focus, we can talk about how much the billionaires can do with that money, but its the labour that we need to worry about and its self control.