or, it should be.
AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
Cap the rent! Limit how much richer the rich can get.
Rent decreases.
Long term tenants should pay less each year they are there, not more.
It makes me sick to see these large scale apartment complexes build in our state, owned by some company in Texas. Rents are not set at the rate for the area, they are set at a county average... Making them unaffordable to most of the folks that need to live there.
Minimum wages set at $15 an hour do no good when a studio apartment is still over a $1000 a month. Forget about having a pet - the deposits and 'pet rent' are ridiculous, and you end up buying someone else new carpets when you move out anyway.
Gas and a gallon of milk are running neck in neck at $5.00 a whack. Those with small children.... formula is hard to find and unaffordable. Diapers. Daycare.... Yes, people that are working need welfare assistance to pay for day cares and eat.
So a 'job' isn't enough to live on......
Good people with families, end up homeless, and We assume they are drug addicts.
BUILD PROPER MENTAL HEALTH LIVING FACILITIES
There are so many out there not on the proper meds and unable to take care of themselves. They end up on the streets with the wrong crowd and We call them homeless drug addicts.
MAKE CRIME ACCOUNTABLE
Break the revolving doors on our legal system. Enforce the laws, support the law enforcement personnel. Lock people up!! Create facilities that help people with life skills that can return them to society as productive parts of the whole.
Well, There's my thoughts anyway, what's yours?