{"id":73755,"date":"2020-04-03T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73755"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:50:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T16:50:25","slug":"73755","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=73755","title":{"rendered":"Urbocentric Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A reader emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Several months ago, when white, urbanist homeowners were busy advocating for rental housing for everyone else, I would ask why. Why would we advocate for renting over ownership? I never got a good answer- it was determined to be mostly racist to ask the question, which to me seems to be more of a racist answer than the question is.<\/p><p>Anyway, now with COVID-19 shutdowns, I started to see this hashtag pop up- #cancelrent<\/p><p>I searched the hashtag on Twitter. More than 80 within the last hour.<\/p><p>The biggest complaint seems to be that it is now suddenly wrong for someone else to earn money by &#8220;doing no more than allowing you to have a place to live.<\/p><p>Great, then it&#8217;s settled. Can we stop building luxury&nbsp;$2000&nbsp;per month apartments and go back to building single family homes or at least make the apartments that are being built condos or both?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a little concerned that the generation that thought milk came from cartons, now thinks housing, healthcare, and benefits descend from the skies in velveteen treasure chests on the backs of unicorns.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader emails: Several months ago, when white, urbanist homeowners were busy advocating for rental housing for everyone else, I would ask why. Why would we advocate for renting over ownership? I never got a good answer- it was determined to be mostly racist to ask the question, which to me seems to be more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[374,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-justice","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73757,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73755\/revisions\/73757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}