#workforce housing

[racefortheironthrone]

With housing becoming increasingly unaffordable to many Americans, do you think we might start to see bigger companies and labor unions start buying and/or building housing for their workers?

Companies, not so much, because especially post-tech layoffs, the dominant paradigm is to view labor costs as something to be avoided and passed on to consumers or the government etc. as much as possible. So even though workforce housing is a sound investment, most employers won't put in the money.

Labor unions have done this historically, but it's a heavy lift when it comes to organizational capacity, especially when the costs are distributed across ever-smaller numbers of members. It's also the case that U.S banking, housing, and labor law makes it unnecessarily difficult to build cooperative housing of this sort.

Changing the law and financial policies to something more similar to continental Europe or Scandinavia would dramatically alter how much cooperative housing is built in the U.S.

[salamanderinspace]

"Workforce housing" is actually defined by governments and developers as a unit that can house three people who spend less than %30 of the median income on housing. In NH this would put rent for that unit at over $7000 per month for a three bedroom.

"Workforce housing" is a government propaganda tern for "whatever housing developers feel like building." I watched one of the Jay Childs propaganda films, "housing fact or fiction," and the presenter actually says, "if you can afford the housing, then that housing is Affordable!"

When local politicians crusade for affordable housing, they're crusading for corporate developers to build more luxury units. We don't need "affordable housing," we need rent caps and rent control.

[fishstewarding]

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[psychologeek]

"Is murder okay?"

Psychologeek, digital art. 2023.

Drawing, because I don't have words.

[awkward-teabag]

Can't even mention that a store near me is clearly using abusing the TFW program because they refuse to pay little more than minimum wage in a high cost of living area (also you won't get benefits and you'll only be part-time) because the fascists and right-wingers will jump in to say it's about immigration and white replacement.

No, it's because rich white people want to hoard even more money and found an intentional loophole to both make more money (via paying employees less) and also have more power over employees, employees who may or may not know Canadian employment laws (or safety laws) and even if they do, don't have the ability or support to try to hold the company accountable.

You can absolutely criticize the federal government for keeping the loophole open but it predates Trudeau by decades and it was Harper who both expanded the program and added a way for companies to fast-track TFWs. It was also under Harper that companies started firing Canadians (or not hiring them) and then requesting permission to mass-hire TFWs instead.

But the way the right wing talks, you would think Trudeau started this whole thing and the poor multi-million and multi-billion dollar companies are being taken advantage of. Also that housing prices, lack of new developments, and zoning issues started with Trudeau and are the fault of mass-immigration he has a boner for instead of being an issue for decades and experts warning this would happen if governments didn't act ASAP.

Instead the neolibs and cons kept cutting back and kicking that can down the road, a can that started being kicked by Mulroney and the Conservative Party.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Arthur Delaney at HuffPost:

U.S. House Republicans sent a subpoena Wednesday to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, for information about how his state responded to a massive fraud scheme by a nonprofit operating a pandemic relief program. Federal prosecutors have charged dozens of people affiliated with a Minnesota nonprofit that stole $250 million worth of aid intended to feed children.

“You are well aware of the multi-million-dollar fraud that has occurred under your tenure as Governor,” House Education and Workforce Committee chair Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.) said in a Wednesday letter accompanying the subpoena to Walz. The subpoena requests any emails between Walz and the Minnesota agencies administering the aid that Foxx said would show “the extent of your responsibilities and actions addressing the massive fraud that resulted in the abuse of taxpayer dollars intended for hungry children.” Foxx had requested information about the fraud scheme from the Minnesota Department of Education in November 2023 and in June. In August, Walz became Kamala Harris’ running mate ― and a much juicier target for Republican oversight. “This was an appalling abuse of a federal COVID-era program,” a spokeswoman for Walz said in an email on Wednesday. “The state department of education worked diligently to stop the fraud and we’re grateful to the FBI for working with the department of education to arrest and charge the individuals involved.”

House Republicans doing waste of time subpoenas, this time towards Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.

See Also:

The Guardian: Republican-led House panel subpoenas Tim Walz over $250m Covid relief fraud

[tendercoretroglodyke]

I can't believe I'm still saying this 5 seasons in but. the way at LEAST half of all the disasters on desperate housewives would've been avoided if any one of these women had ever heard of abortion....

[bishimightwing]

In lieu of some possibly legal mess I'm kinda trying to avoid while still trying to adult, I'm having a healthy "fuck it Friday" feat. a sorta Superman themed protein shake of my own making.

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Half cup of vanilla Triple 0 OIKOS Greek yogurt

1/4 cup organic apple juice

1/4 cup water

2/3 cup of crushed ice

[rainywithachanceofstars]

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[orcelito]

Spent 4 hours (much of which was severely distracted) reading the chapter I have to present on in 3 days

Learned..many things about women's rights movements in the US. holy cow

[quitedisastrous]

life was so much easier three days ago when i was detaching myself from reality and spending all of my free time shiny hunting

[furylad]

I start a new work program tomorrow and I'm nervous as hell

they're all nice and this is going to be helpful to me but it's an unfamiliar environment which I always have difficulty with

also I have to wake up very early compared to what I'm used to

[froody]

Women throughout (American and English) history worked. The idea that in the past the sole responsibility of women was domestic labor and childrearing is largely inaccurate for the majority of women in these societies. Women were expected to do domestic labor like cooking and cleaning and raising children AND work to bring income to their family, this was true for the average woman, excluding the upper middle class/wealthy. If a woman’s husband owned a tavern or restaurant, she also cooked and kept bar and did the duties associated with the business. If a woman’s husband was a (small scale/subsistence/tenant) farmer, the woman did farm labor. Often a woman was expected to do labor related to her husband’s job.

Women also had vocations and forms of income unrelated to their husband. The nature of these jobs changed over time but many women did things like weaving, embroidery, crafting, beer brewing, chicken tending and laundress work to bring income. Women with skills were seen as better marriage candidates because they’d make money for their husband.

My great-great-great-great grandmother told fortunes and did farm labor, my great-great-great grandmother was a midwife, my great-great grandmother worked in a textile factory for most of her adult life and my great grandmother was a school lunch lady.

This is why it makes me irate when women on the right say things like “feminism forced me to get a job instead of being allowed to stay home with my children” before feminism you would have had to tend house, raise your children and bring income to your husband. Now, at the very least, the money is hopefully your own. Women were always in the workforce, their work was not recognized.

[foldingfittedsheets]

When I was growing up we had a German Shepherd called Mischa. She was truly the goodest girl. We found her tied up in a parking lot having been left there by her previous owners. It happened to be Father’s Day and my dad, allergic to most animals, was cursed to have my mom bring home new pets year after year on Father’s Day specifically.

Her history was unknown but she was just about a year old when we got her. She was a lovely sweet tempered dog who loved us with all her heart. Her greatest desire was just to be where we were, vibing with whatever we were up to at the moment.

So no one thought it was odd that she was hanging out near my dad while he worked on the roof. Our house was set in a hill, so the upstairs was at ground level from one side and had a balcony on the other. My dad set up a ladder on the shorter side of the house and got to work.

After a few hours he came back down to get lunch. It took us a while before we realized we couldn’t find Mischa. We started calling her and were met with faint whining. We looked all around the house and it baffled us that east to west we could hear her whining. Which is when we finally looked up.

There was Mischa on the roof, delighted that we were finally looking up at her. We couldn’t understand what had happened. My dad went up and carried her down the ladder while her tail wagged happily.

It wasn’t until he went to go back to work and she instantly followed him up the ladder that we really conceptualize how she’d gotten onto the roof in the first place. She loved climbing ladders it turned out. But unfortunately it was a one way trip.

After that any time the ladder came out we had to secure her lest she pop up to join the workforce.