{"id":87272,"date":"2024-04-04T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87272"},"modified":"2024-04-03T06:59:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:59:02","slug":"reality-always-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=87272","title":{"rendered":"Reality Always Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You may not win along with it, but that&#8217;s your fault for denying reality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of denying reality:  we warned MInneapolis about the inevitable end results of rent control, high taxes and onerous regulations (aka &#8220;everything the Met Council does re housing and transit policy&#8221;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yet every $%#$%$@# time their chickens come home to roost, they act surprised and angry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Roughly 7000 apartments in Minneapolis sit empty because landlords refuse to lower their rents to prices our communities can afford.<br><br>Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/noemptyhomes_mn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@noemptyhomes_mn<\/a> for hosting a vacancy tour! Landlords letting homes intentionally sit empty during a housing crisis is unacceptable. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tlSmWqCF0Q\">pic.twitter.com\/tlSmWqCF0Q<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Robin4mpls (@robin4mpls) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robin4mpls\/status\/1775312259709050922?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The comments in that thread are <em>lit<\/em>, by the way; every metro housing advocate&#8217;s inner Lenin is showing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may not win along with it, but that&#8217;s your fault for denying reality. Speaking of denying reality: we warned MInneapolis about the inevitable end results of rent control, high taxes and onerous regulations (aka &#8220;everything the Met Council does re housing and transit policy&#8221;). And yet every $%#$%$@# time their chickens come home to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87272","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=87272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87273,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87272\/revisions\/87273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}