[lbo-talk] Dodd bill

martin schiller mart_schiller at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 24 09:18:22 PDT 2008


On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:06:36 -0400 Doug Henwood posted:


>Since your plan has little chance of adoption under the present
>political circs, let's talk utopias for a moment. Your scheme would
>help out debtors, but not really change the institutional structure or
>the preposterous fetishization of homeownership - in fact, it'd
>reinforce the latter.

Why not simply eliminate evictions. Without the power of evictions, the entire housing supply would open up and homelessness would disappear. That's utopian. (and socialist)

xx, martin



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