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In 2010, The United States Government Legislative Branch enacted the Plain Writing Act 2010 which stipulates that laws must be written in a way that is understandable and comprehensible to the population. This was due to many human rights abuses documented and presented at foreign governments the USA has alliances with and that the USA does business with. Similar presentations and documentations being presented at the UN Security Council where the USA comprises 20% of the permanent members along with the UK, France, China and Russia.
Focus on housing shortage
Here’s the good news: New York is creating thousands of good-paying jobs.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) March 27, 2023
Here’s the bad news: New York isn’t building enough housing and workers are struggling to find homes they can afford.
With the #NYHousingCompact, we can fix that.
Learn more: https://t.co/rWxZjw13zR pic.twitter.com/oJznywC1rA
In General, the law in all developed nations must be presented in a way that is easy to understand and published in a way that makes it easy to review and consult the law if there are any questions about engaging in certain conduct. Attorneys mostly serve as legal secretaries and hearing advocates in most countries if they are not an actual legislator.
Amongst the presentations was the living conditions for legal immigrants and those legally present who had been living in the USA from between 20 to over 150 years. Legally arrived between 1850 and 1980. Highlighted where areas like Skid Row Los Angeles, Hell's Kitchen New York, Camden New Jersey, Bronx New York and East Los Angeles, Compton and Watts Los Angeles. These areas being representative of living conditions in 3rd world slums and developing nations were found in the USA. One of the wealthiest, most powerful, most luxurious nations on Earth with a mighty military and extraordinarily intelligent federal government that rivals all the military might and strength throughout the whole existence of humanity.
While some of these accusations were false, outdated or exaggerated; housing problems were found in the USA and new problems were found regarding work standards, rest standards and the work requirements to acquire basic resources.
Needless to say, many US based college graduates (born, raised or legally immigrated and graduated) were humiliated at these global events, broadcasted, transmitted and published through New York, where the UN has a local US Office and they did not want to work for the United States Government unless they fixed these living conditions immediately and forthwith.
Some statistics that came out of these preliminary findings about contemporary government workers from the US committed human rights atrocities included that the USA has a 30% drug usage rate compared to 2% to 10% or less in most of the world. Depending on population, an increase from 2% to 3%-4% drug usage rate can kick off a major international drug trafficking crackdown based on the nation in focuses resources. Most nations focus locally first and confiscate resources, shipments, and execute drug dealers along the network path closest to home before making assessments of further operations passing off referrals to other drug trafficking combating nations.
This is because drug usage affects psychological profiles and physical health of the breeding population so done as mass distribution, it is often considered as a chemical attack to reduce survival viability of a nation's breeding population and their offspring.
A long time statistic, that the US is often accredited for was that it houses 25% of the world's prison population, much of it its own, while only having 5% of the world's human population within its borders.
And another statistic that came in focus was the 80,000 homeless veterans that live within the US. A lot of people asked why not take them to firing squad and save them the humiliation if there is not enough room for them upon returning home. Eventually an effort began to find them all housing and jobs. That number was reduced to less than 40,000 between 2010 and 2018. The biggest population of homeless military veterans being in California and Texas.
In addition to the homeless veterans, there were a total of approximately 650,000 homeless throughout the USA, which included the veterans per Title 42, Chapter 119, Section 11302. This definition was further broken down into sheltered (Craigslist, Couch Surfing, College Dorm, Office Building, Men's Home, Women's Home, Drug Rehab, Jail or Prison (to be released within 2 years)) and those returning from the Military who spent all their money while on leave. Unsheltered meant people sleeping on the sidewalks, under bridges and overpasses, park benches, abandoned warehouses (no insulation, running water or utilities). Sleeping in Car/Showering at Gym was a grey area which depends on how clean the car is and how often they shower. A lot of car dwellers are actually couch surfers who spend little time sleeping in cars.
Unsheltered homeless are called rough sleepers in the UK and throughout Europe.
One of the major contributors to homelessness is lack of work. Obviously if a person can't find work, you can't pay rent and lack of work can lead to empty homes in an area.
Empty homes does not necessarily mean there is a need for jobs in an area or a viable economy to start a business and attract people from other areas. But empty homes and work stagnation can be a sign of a good environment for long term job creation. In order to create long term jobs, a business must first have a pretty good work environment. Job specialists can often sort through most of the details.
For many immigrants, the 40 hour work week is considered cruel and inhumane. For example, a work week in Spain includes a 2 hour lunch and might go from 8 to 4 with lunch at 10 am to 12 pm or 11 am to 1 pm. Both in the UK and Spain vacation time is often 28 days to up to 60 days inclusive of weekdays and bank holidays. Plus bank holidays. In other words, they can take 4 week vacations and 8 week vacations which are most common or do four 2 week vacations which can cause fatigue and feelings of exhaustion or three 3 week vacations which may result in a 20% to 25% pay dock upon return from the last vacation. Most people choose 4 weeks or 8 weeks. Some people are not eligible for more than 4 weeks without a pay dock and those with 8 week eligible can sometimes get additional pay for only taking 4 weeks but not always because they produce the same amount of work each year whether they take 4 weeks off or 8 weeks off. It varies from person to person and business to business. Few people opt for 2 four week vacations but that option is available in some situations, scheduling can be an issue with two 4 week vacations and also too much slacking off in between time off for some. It is available but less popular for most people because they most often work for 6 months and take 1 month off or work 5 months and take 1 month off. The 6/1 option works best for people who elect this option and can keep up with performance.
Occasionally days off for doctor or bank/mailings/legal paperwork are included sparingly. Usually 1 per quarter and 1 every quarter is discouraged due to online banks, teller machines, email and Saturday visits at the doctor. Excessive sick time is considered a disability but might fit into a four 2 week vacation schedule. However, then there is no time for an actual vacation. This is something labor monitors observe and evaluate independent of the business working conditions.
Laborers not following the US work method can work 6 or 8 hour shifts. Lunch and break is often not required. Many workers choose to work all the way through their shift non stop, possibly just an occasional water break or bathroom break, and then let their performance review dictate their pay.
Work availability dictates housing conditions and availability for those not on permanent disability, temporary or permanent government services, or retired and living off a trust fund. Personal trust funds are quite similar to a retirement account as is an estate inheritance which is treated like a personal trust fund for privacy and safety reasons.
Regardless of performance, jobs must often meet basic necessity thresholds if working full time. Basic often means a small studio, modest 1 bedroom or shared house, townhome or flat with more than 1 room. Usually only 1 person per room unless a boyfriend or girlfriend visits occasionally. Laborers doing a 6 hour shift can take a 2 hour break and complete another 6 hour shift. Workers doing 8 hour shifts and not working all the way through often follow a US work method but sometimes just take a 15-30 minute snack break and are able to keep up on performance.
Snacks and breaks are at the employees discretion as long as they are in between tasks because things are measured per performance on company wide charts and audited by labor monitors (e.g dept. of labor).
A laborer schedule might be 6 A.M. to 12 P.M. and 2 P.M. to 8 P.M. or 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. and 4 P.M. to 12 A.M. and they might only do the second shift two or three times a week or they might do double shifts often. If doing constant double shifts they are often allowed to take a week or two off throughout the year per supervisor and company agreements to let their muscles heal and recuperate and not suffer muscle injury. Double shifts can be restricted based on performance and taking too much time off for muscle recuperation. The work must be both sustainable and feasible, not just a way to get paid to be at work longer.
Housing is often not much of a concern for workers because people without work who are not retired have a place to live and people are expected to show up to work rested, clean and often fed. Not every places has a lunch cafeteria near the work site or location.
Lack of work contributes to homelessness and that is a major contributor to homelessness in the USA.
Part-Time workers usually live in a bedroom, in a shared bedroom, college dormitory or with family inside a bedroom in a family home.
Shared bedrooms are discouraged but can be authorized in a population emergency. This can not cause an increase in rent prices as it may destabilize the working economy. It is sometimes used as alternate prison sentencing but not something normal landlords are allowed to do. It can cause congestion problems. Picture five hundred 3 bedroom homes meant for 1 person each or with a couple in the master bedroom and 1 to 2 people total with a hobby room or den that now have 6 to 12 tenants per home. Possibly with a small dorm in the garage. There would obviously not be enough jobs in an area for such an arrangement but it would work as alternate sentencing with social workers, nurses and limited public transportation to work areas.
Because the USA is not a communist country and because it is not considered a socialist country even if it does offer government support services to its citizens and those legally present; it goes without saying that lack of work will almost definitely lead to homelessness. The only other contributor to homelessness for regular full time workers is lack of savings during economic down turns where it can take 6 months to 2 years to regain regular employment. These economic downturns happen at least once per census period in the USA. Y2k/.Com bubble, 2009 economic crises, Covid-19. There is occasionally smaller downturns that affect only specific industries or smaller demographics but a US worker will often only go through 1 economic downturn per census period. Its rare that a US worker will experience 2 downturns in a census period but it does happen occasionally. Its considered rare and is an edge case.
Here’s the good news: New York is creating thousands of good-paying jobs.
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) March 27, 2023
Here’s the bad news: New York isn’t building enough housing and workers are struggling to find homes they can afford.
With the #NYHousingCompact, we can fix that.
Learn more: https://t.co/rWxZjw13zR pic.twitter.com/oJznywC1rA
New York's Housing Dilemma. How to build 1/2 a million homes before the employers leave.
New York is on the move to create a modern and inclusive developed world metro that is both plush and comfortable and also well built and affordable. It is one of the largest metros in the Western Hemisphere which is often exclusive of Africa. e.g New York 8 Million, London 8 Million, Los Angeles 10 Million, Metroplex 8 Million. Compare to Mumbai 15 million, Chennai 8 million, Lagos 15 million, Beijing 20 million, Tokyo 14 million, Moscow 13 million. Metros this size can have growth rates of 1/2 a million per year but also similar declines which requires shutting down parts of the city and relocating the population to conservate resources.
Governor Kathy Hochul
US Citizens who are New York Residents. Consider writing a legislative proposal requesting no further term limits be placed on major government offices but that the impeachment process be made valid and that it include referendum or recall. Consider having her serve as Governor for 20 years to ensure financial stability in New York. Consider a high school student will work 20 to 65 and needs housing and jobs and a 40 year old working to 65 still has 25 years of labor left for retirement. Consider the consequences of constantly changing Governors when there is no long term plan in place.
Her tweet, which is posted above for reference, is related to her immediate success in attracting new companies and businesses but having a housing shortage of about a 1/2 million homes. Hence the long introductory data. Even with Connecticut and New Jersey agreeing to provide homes for New York workers and coming to an interstate tax agreement with New York (home and road taxes in neighboring state, income tax in New York, sales tax split randomly) that leaves a housing shortage of over 1/4 million.
It is not clear how many of the needed homes are for single person homes or apartments and how how many are 4 person family homes and which workers are immigrants and planning to relocate either within New York or the United States and which are immigrants going back home after a certain period of time in the US. The dilemma at the moment is a shortage of 1/2 a million homes and this missing data will help resolve this issue long term.
New York has a population of about 20 million with nearly half of the population living in New York City.
Currently, Zillow shows 20,000 homes for rent and about 45,000 homes for sale in New York. Varying in price. Available throughout the entire state and not in one concentrated geographic location. So if each home could house 4 people, that would "solve the problem" but each home is in a different location and some people would have an extremely long commute to work. Governor Hochul needs the homes near Conneticut and New Jersey because that's were the jobs are, but even with their assistance in providing housing, many people will remain unhoused and the needs of the businesses who moved to the area will remain unfulfilled, at least for the time being.
Long terms solutions vs. short-term fixes
A short term solution would be to stuff everyone in a Craigslist and let them figure out the housing situation on their own or to apologize to the employers and hope they keep enough jobs in the State to meet the work needs of the existing population. This is standard operating procedure in many government offices within the USA. Its easier to apologize than to do things properly.
Short-term, some things need to be done anyways and that's good for future pandemics, emergencies, natural disasters, economic crashes, recessions or similar situations. Planning for these things and assessing current short-comings is one of the jobs of the Governor's Office.
One of the short-term solutions might include taking 100,000 job applicants and helping them migrate to another State where there is both housing an jobs. It might be several different states that these 100,000 workers migrate to in various migration groups. They'll need transportation costs, plus first month and deposit if they don't have any savings and hopefully they are able they start working right away. See ya later, sorry for the inconvenience.
Long-term, it would make sense to plan for 20 year to 25 year segments of human development in New York State because it is a major immigration port along with Los Angeles and two others that are testing immigration capacity. Many people still choose to arrive in New York via cruise ship and some fly in via plane and take a ferry around the Statue of Liberty before heading into the city with their immigration paperwork. As and example of future planning, the entire population of New York State can fit in Shanghai, China which is a city with around 20 million people. Tokyo, Japan is setup to grow to up to 40 million people or more and Mexico city is planned for a 20 million person population. Depending on how far out from the city center the metro is measured, some of those numbers are already there.
As the Governor, It might make sense to talk with the employers about long term plans for setting up a work resource in New York even if its not the RPA metropolitan area and to discuss what the RPA region might look like in 2035, 2045 and 2050 with their businesses available in the area. Kids graduating high school in 2025 will be approximately 33 years old in 2040 and 45 years old in 2052. Many will need to save for retirement. How will their lives look if they follow directions, stay out of jail, go to work and pay their bills on time?
New York State currently has approximately 91 government workers for every 10,000 people, not including Federal. Nationwide, there are approximately 4 Federal workers for every 1 state worker which would bring the tally to approximately 450 government workers for every 10,000 people in New York. This was all discussed pre-covid as a national security dilemma which doesn't necessarily have to be a dilemma if the government can properly budget taxes and coordinate housing and jobs and work with citizens and private industry to eradicate homelessness in the USA. Most government workers are administrators working with tax budgets and live nearby the places they work. They obviously aren't administering tax budgets and working in Government Offices from the moon or Mars at the moment.
As it relates to the employers, that are willing to do business in the State, how big are they wanting to grow their business and what would their business look like in 100 years with New York as their head quarters or base of operations?
Setting up Businesses in Low Income Areas
Most businesses first examine housing and cost of living in an area to figure out what they'll need to pay to hire each employee. A forklift driver working for 5 years at a company and living on a twin sized bed and riding a huffy bicycle to work with no money to go out with friends or visit family can become quite disgruntled because other employers in the area are probably offering a forklift driver a similar standard of living. With 1/2 a million housing accommodations missing, if they are all 4 person households with 2 adults and 2 teenagers, this can mean 2 million jobs. Especially if all the teenagers will stay in the area. With 1 person households, its 1/2 a million jobs, 1 person per home. Those people will need somewhere to live and work until 65 and they might switch jobs or industries between now and 65 or take time off or retire early.
Regardless of trendy buzzwords and hype, most people don't travel around too much and even working remotely is often somewhat locally based for a lot of people. Commuting to a branch office 5 minutes from home or having a dedicated connection and work computer setup in a spare bedroom or small home cubicle is more representative of the average remote worker or work from home employee.
Traveling costs money so if a remote worker wants to work from a secured laptop and stay in hotels and can still meet compliance requirements, that will be at their own expense (the travel and accommodations costs and any compliance violations caused by their error in judgement) and the laptop has to be approved and authorized and is usually company property and requires periodic inspection. For work related travel, the business pays for travel and accommodations but that is usually only a small percentage of time, its rare that an employee on a business trip, rather than working remotely while traveling, will face a self payable compliance fine unless they did something intentionally criminal or in violation of corporate policy.
Most travel and work workers, are independent workers that own all their own equipment and are responsible for their own computer safety and security if there are security requirements for their industry. Some are corporate sales people but the majority are graphic artists, video editors, photographers, videographers, authors, writers, computer programmers, system administrators and network configuration technicians that do similar work for multiple businesses and must ensure there is no conflict of interest between clients or they must focus on selling products that are purchasable by customers if they've had too many conflict of interest violations in the past. Occasionally attorneys and accountants fit into this group as well.
Housing goes with jobs in most areas and professions. Housing in low-income areas often have a dysfunctional or non-functional government unless they have a large population of permanently disabled residents in which case job creation requires special consideration and accommodation. Many areas are low income because they have only enough economic activity for food, necessities and staying at home watching t.v. all the time. In many of these areas the people work part-time on a community rotation to manage grocery stores, clothing stores and small volume furniture stores. They often have tobacco or alcohol available but the sales vary. In some of these areas vice or leisure item sales are extremely low volume or non-existent.
Often, housing is not difficult for areas with no functional government and only private corporations or people working for themselves. Usually someone impersonates the government and sets up housing programs because the people are usually going to just squat in their homes if they don't have money to pay for shelter. Then they work up a utility program with the local utilities or if its abandoned, they forge all the paperwork there too. Now its just a matter of getting people to go to work and getting them enough money to pay for rent, food, utilities, clothes and transportation. The goal is to get local residents to do most of the work themselves for their own survival until a competent government arrives, to help them reduce the amount of children they are having, and to get at least some of them elected into government office so they can handle the tax budgets and community planning themselves. Usually, these goals and ambitions are long term.
As the place begins to resemble a place with a functional government, the forgeries are destroyed and private corporations continue to mozzy on in to the local economy if it is suitable for their economic goals. Occasionally, mock elections or actual elections are held and this reduces the amount of forgeries that will later need to be destroyed but usually less than 100 people initially vote and at the most, its often less than 5% of the population that initially votes.
The cost of housing in other words is built into the local economy and there is always either work or direct payments to landlords from the government to ensure no one is sleeping on the street with a used tire for pillow. Housing vouchers are rarely used, the tenant just receives a letter that their rent will be paid for x amount of time. E.g. 6 months, 12 months, 18 months or 24 months. 24 months is usually because of job training or college they qualify for and to expedite the time to complete training so they don't have to work and go to school if in college. If its job training, they get paid to go to work and learn how to do their job properly, it can be as low as minimum wage but depends on past accomplishments and career goals. If someone moves out of their unit before the lease is up, they have to pay their own way. They can request to be shuffled around prepaid housing units for personal safety or psychological concerns and eventually they are able to get their own place and pay for it or are assessed for permanent disability. When shuffling tenants around, the landlord occasionally requires a court order stating that government paid units are not to be treated as subleasing if moving out tenants and moving in new ones during the lease period. They obviously aren't getting any money and even if some pay very little money as part of their personal budgeting requirements before they go off on their own, its usually less than the total cost of lease for their stay. The government usually pays market rent only.
Banking, Loans and Rents
Many successful businesses get in trouble for banking, loans and financing. A Net 10 invoice is essentially a 10 day loan plus prorated banking costs from date of service. Most businesses issue these as interest free loans and expect the government to recover the costs via taxes. There is also the issue of financing fees on past due invoices vs. charging late fees for non-payment. Beyond Net 90, the government requires a formal loan agreement with a bank, the banks often request the person or business financing the equipment or services to back the loan and many businesses have their own corporate financing dept to simplify loan administration. American Express, which is an actual credit card company allows 30 days no interest on transactions within a billing statement for its American Express Gold Card holders so many businesses feel comfortable with up to Net 30 but prefer less like Net 20, Net 15 or Net 10 and then charging late fees with service termination, halt or pause if invoice remains unpaid by the start of next billing cycle. Each business' rules are different based on their policies. Many businesses for these reasons charge immediately upon completion of service and only give 72 hours to complete payment or resolve non-processing issues.
People learn a lot about banking by using the invoice method instead of the payment and receipt method. A lot of businesses charge up front for x amount of service and have a 2 week or 30 day billing cycle to track non payment of service. Few businesses deal with basic necessities however except for grocery stores and housing payments.
A lot of property owners don't have any loans but they do have property maintenance charges, payroll charges, property taxes, updates, repairs and other assessments such as weatherization or contributions to a general fund to add street lights, curb appeal and other enhancements like paying for a construction crew to build restaurants nearby instead of stiffing them on the invoice. Eventually taxes will kick in for an area that can be used for local amenities but that needs to be budgeted. Sometimes, the landlords need the money left over after upkeep of their property leasing business for their own living expenses and family obligations.
In dysfunctional areas, if property owners have loans, oh well. If nobody is paying rent and everyone is squatting in an area then they obviously can't pay their loans because nobody is paying rent and they have no revenues or income. The people will just break back into their home after the Sheriff evicts them and even if they are taken to jail for breaking and entering, eventually the jails and prison run out of room. So they often explain to the bank no one is paying rent and with government approval, a halt can be placed on interest accumulation or the Federal Reserve can be petitioned for stimulus to at least pay the interest on loans while the area recovers.
If a landlord is beaten and down trotten across town or in another state, usually when things pick back up, the person collecting rents and liasoning with the job developer will give them all the money they collected or it gets direct deposited to a checking account for a temporary LLC while they are away and this gets transferred to the rightful landlord when and if they return. This will help with their accounting requirements and assessing their claims of financial ruin. Its definitely appropriate to ask for a property management fee. Usually $60k for a property manager is not that much but at least $14 to $15 per hour considering the person who helped manage their properties and collect payment would normally have to live in the area and pay all their bills on time themselves. Most people aren't allowed to barter per commerce rules because they are unable to account for taxes due during bartering. If the property owners never return, a lot of people will transfer the money to the local treasury, pass it on to a State Recovery Fund, keep it for a few years to see if they ask for it (usually a bad option) or transfer the LLC to a local with a strict contract about date of transfer and leave the money in there as operating income. In cases where the landlord does not return prior to departure, its usually ok to withdraw a property management fee via direct deposit or check before leaving. It has to be modest and based on market wages and income for that position. It's usually not ok. to take a $120k or $200k property management fee even in expensive areas unless you are managing a sky scraper in which case up to $500k might be manageable for withdrawal. For skyscrapers, its best to already have experience dealing with that amount of money in a personal account.
Stable housing is essential for vibrant economies and it makes sense to not only build a nice place to live but to also have long term programs for economic crashes, the permanently disabled, the failed to save for retirement and for new people moving to the area and not working yet. Once the rules are set, they have to be the same for everyone to avoid discrimination charges, authorized action and prosecution for things such as racial or religious prejudice all the way to accusations of genocide.
Building housing when there is no emergency
Building housing before the jobs arrive is often a priority in most developed nations because if an area can attract even a small population, they can be placed on a temporary free rent or low rent programs until the jobs arrive and having arrived early, they often get first pick of the housing locations that will be affordable based on their anticipated, projected or selected job role.
The determining factors are:
For single people:
College is being redone at the moment but when that is complete, they just have to coordinate with the job market better and make tuition payable outright and during attendance rather than as a long term never ending payment. Loans should also be available for those with good credit or through the Federal Educational Credit Line (FAFSA) but if people aren't enrolling due to costs, having loans available doesn't matter. Student loans should not lead to inflation. A lot of times they don't even lead to higher wages, its just something to do and for full time workers, its an extra 20 to 25 hours of work per week to attend college full time.
For families:
Skyscrapers as a housing option
In places like New York, Chicago and Florida; the concept of building homes inside skyscrapers has been circulated. Consider an average 4 bedroom home is about 1,600 to 2,000 sq ft plus yard. Its often a matter of tearing out floors and ceilings and building sound proof walls around each home. The problem is air circulation. Most sky scrapers don't have working windows but have adequate ventilation. The US Bank Tower in Downtown Los Angeles has a good elevator system that is sectioned off per floor so part of the elevators would be residential and part of the elevators would be marked as business offices.
Retrofitting existing buildings is a popular pass time for real estate developers because over population requires creative thinking. Also a lot of office space in sky scrapers can remain vacant for years and few companies can afford to lease out an entire floor or several floors at once. Homes and business offices has become a popular retrofit, usually the outside of the building is nondescript and very discrete. There is often a front desk on the first floor with either a cafe or common area. The Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles has a good layout of how to include a dry cleaner, gym and restaurants in a residential area of a skyscraper without increasing the humidity or making the building too stuffy. Its kind of cool to walk around and visit some of the floors that do not require a key card and peek at some of the stores and restaurants. Common areas can be included on any floor, not just the lobby. People can also come up with their own common area designs or view other towers.
Retrofitting skyscrapers can provide a good housing and work option in places where they are available.
The Population Planning
In the case of New York, there is a 516,000 home shortage near the RPA area which was first included in the America 2050 Mega Regions projection. Humans tend to clump together for survival so even if an area seems rural or desolate, there can be quite a bit of humans in the area which might follow people to the inner city if one of them is harmed or injured. This can lead to other humans sensing a distress signal and moving to the city to see if everything is ok in their environment. This can cause small populations of humans moving in and out of cities of all sizes, which is their right based on freedom of movement and right to travel. Often they are not causing a noticeable conflict or there is no conflict at all, they are just responding to their senses of danger, worry, hurt or injury and/or seeking available resources in an area.
Population fluctuations can cause housing shortages or housing surpluses. Housing shortages require planning for both housing and jobs to reduce congestion and lack of local mobility.
A lot of populations also aren't thoroughly or properly documented even if everyone has a birth certificate and is legally present which can lead to a lapse in planning for an area known to be populated by humans who require government care for food, clothing and housing resources. In these situations, the documentation does exist and is real and legitimate, but the statistical data is not publicly published and that can mean its also not reviewed by any government offices. For privacy reasons, amongst others the data remains unused. Availability of data will make little difference during a large population fluctuation or mass migration if the area is not prepared for it however.
Its a good idea to study the data.gov Normal Town dataset to think about organizing data related to housing and jobs. It's also suggested to get an overview of mass migration so you are prepared or at least able to understand what is happening when a mass migration event occurs.
Many places often model a problem or focus area as a small town. So for example the RPA region might be modeled as Small Town, New Jersey or Tiny Metro, Albany NY. Once the modeling and simulations are complete, the project can be scaled out from 20,000 to 30,000 residents to many millions in less than a year or two in most places.
Its a good idea to setup the town or different sections of a city so that the utilities can be disconnected if part of city empties out. This happens more often than people realize and doesn't always happen because of hostilities or economic crashes. Mass migration is a good topic to study when planning for long term financial stability and population fluctuations in a city regardless of current conditions or human movement in an area. Example, one person moves away and other humans feel a disconnect, so they also leave the area and don't know why. This sets off a chain reaction that can empty out a city or small region. Chicago has studied mass migration of around 200k people migrating into or out of their city in any given year even though overall it doesn't affect their population size and the city has actually grown from 2 million to currently 3 million since 2008-2010. Los Angeles also has had population fluctuations from around 9 million to 7 million to 10 million, to 12 million to 15 million then back down to 12 million and settled at 10 million between 2007 and 2015. The locals did not notice anyone missing or anyone new, mostly an increase in traffic congestion and a few new faces who they no longer see any more. Some areas eventually did see new people settle and grow after 2015 and it did not seem to affect any local jobs or housing too much. Los Angeles is considered to have poor housing and jobs conditions overall but that is improving now and getting better.
As another data point, Heathrow has about 250,000 people go in or out of their airport everyday which results in 91 million passengers per year (arrival/departure). This does not affect the London population which is steady at 8 million except for a slight fluctuating increase for the holidays which is normal and pretty similar in most major metros.
In the USA, Atlanta and Dallas Ft. Worth are the two busiest airports respectively averaging 265k and 195k passengers daily. This is about 71 million and 100 million yearly passengers per each airport. Both arrivals and departures. While Atlanta has the busiest airport in the USA, it is a town of only 500k people. Coincidentally, towns of about 500k to 2 million are the easiest to manage for US based government workers. The goal is to get US based government workers comfortable managing and working in small cities of 5 million to 15 million. Chicago is currently increased to 3 million and is doing very well.
What does this have to do with setting up a New York Business?
This is all important to consider when creating jobs and building housing. Consider humans are now living past 80 across more demographics and that a young human will want to live on their own between 16 to 24. Humans are now breeding around 26 to 35 on average rather than 12 to 22. This means that if there are 1 million humans in an area in 2020 and they are all 26 and have 1 child as a couple, that increases the population to 1.5 million At age 52 if each of the 500k have 1 child as a couple, the area population is now 1.75 million and there is an opportunity for another 125k children by age 78. At which point 1 million people will start dying off and 875k people of varying age will remain in the area. At that point many humans start outbreeding, migrating or getting smaller and might suffer birth defects. This is all part of population planning.
More realistically, the 26 to 35 year olds will have between 1 and 2 kids and when that group of humans reaches the new breeding age of 26 to 35, some of the older groups may still breed with them such as a 26 year old and a 40 year old or a 52 year old with a 34 year old in addition to having existing children. Long term, the population will follow a similar pattern of the old people dying off due to old age and leaving a large portion of the city empty since many seniors now live on their own due to societal, technological and medical advancements.
The Jobs
Jobs are usually not too difficult to create. A human in a developed nation needs financial resources to survive and thrive. Surviving and thriving does not mean breeding excessively and many humans choose not to breed even without population control programs. Some humans can't breed for various reasons and they often have grief counselors available if they can't breed but wanted to have children. Thriving also does not mean they will use their resources to bother or harass other humans, to cause mischief or to harass and confront the government. Some humans are inadvertently misbehaved but the majority usually does well with modest to generous resources without causing any trouble. Overall the current human population living in cities understands the concept of social cohesion quite well.
Job creation starts with basic necessities. Always, this can never be deprioritized or left as an afterthought. It can lead to regional turmoil and constant or occasional economic collapse.
Basic necessities include:
Many governments include:
These jobs never go away, whether the economy is good or bad, these jobs are always available even if they are limited to just a few workers and everyone else gets free rent and food stamps, the workers must be available to manage these human survival services.
The next set of jobs are:
Often, once the facilities are built, much of the work is automated except for remodeling, upgrades, occasional maintenance and monitoring of data. Most people get alerts for system trouble rather than staring at the system seeing if something will fail.
From there, most jobs are for the pursuit of happiness or personal enjoyment, enlightenment, pleasure or interest. Some jobs are not interesting to anybody and if they are required for the population to thrive, they often pay more, not less than other jobs in the area.
For example, a lot of waitresses like their jobs because they get to interact with different people and like helping people and either like or don't mind serving people their food and being part of the team that helps them with cooking their meals and cleaning up after their eating area. They prefer it to other jobs especially when the customers are well mannered, polite, patient and courteous. Many waitresses are able to live on their own and have their own personal vehicle in the United States or they live with room mates out of preference so they have someone to hang out with at home and watch television with or play video games or board games with.
But in areas where nobody wants to be a waitress, the area government must solicit waitresses from other areas where waitressing is a desirable and well liked job or increase the wages to a rate where their restaurant is properly staffed. Many areas don't have restaurants because the cost of staffing exceeds the cost of serving people their meals. Some places have lots of restaurants and are quite profitable and well liked.
Other obvious services include cars, medical services, dental services, hair styling, nail service, clothes fitting and tailoring, physical fitness places, outdoor sports and activities, evening outings, movies, dating locations and entertainment in addition to electronic sales and retailers for clothes, food, furniture. Many areas also have affordable office and hobby space which is usually offices, warehouses or both for 1 to 5 people and equipment storage. This can allow many people in the area to set their own schedule and survive on their own without government assistance. It can also cause retailers and offices to be more flexible about working hours and time off if it doesn't affect the quality of their businesses. In some areas there is a competition between big and small business but in other areas they both get along fine and don't interfere with one another's activities.
In many places its not difficult to complete school while living with parents, work part time or full time while living with them for free and then working until 65 or older with generous time off and without having to suffer homelessness or financial ruin. Finding work is usually a simple endeavor that requires a handful of questions:
Things about a career gap, resumes, past experience, currently employed or unemployed are usually non-important because the USA is considered a developed nation and must provide humane living conditions for those legally present.
What is important is:
Reasons for declining an employment agreement are usually:
Resumes are usually considered like a pause and resume button. If your last employer is the same job role as the current application, the job application with last employer is most appropriate.
Punctuality is usually flexible for small businesses because an interviewee decides when they can arrive and what hours they can work and communicates this during the interview. It will be up to the business if this works for them or not but lack of flexibility can reduce the number of available candidates and most businesses are open for more than 8 hours a day anyways. Bigger businesses sometimes offer flexibility as well but others have a specific time they need certain people to be there as they run on consistent routine and the hired employee must be able to keep up with the routine. Some small businesses have time constraints and routines as well. At the end of the day having only businesses with a 6 AM start time in an area can be considered abuse if there are no programs to shuffle people along to a different area with more varied work schedules. At the same time, finding no suitable work schedule might indicate a lack of desire to work for a job seeker.
A lot of businesses have various shifts today or have work that isn't time sensitive and just needs a person to show up and do some of the work during work hours. A lot of well paying jobs aren't that competitive and a lot of low paying jobs are overly competitive. Job market examiners usually focus on this data and communicate it to business owners.
Work generates income for the employees and rest periods teaches them to save for when there isn't any work around.
New Jobs and Expanding the Town
Job creation is usually dependent on local need. If the town has 2 million people and they live in various sized households but each household has enough income for outings, clothes and time off, it really doesn't make sense to make new jobs because that will close off existing jobs. If people start quitting their jobs all over town for whatever reason, it often makes more sense to offer job training programs rather than attempting to create whole different industries. People get bored over time and its good to plan for work rotation within a town if its something people desire. Many places have the same person doing the same job for very many decades and that can lead to job bottlenecks and career stagnation as the town waits for people to retire.
In a case where the job market is full and unemployment is low, it still makes sense to have available work training programs for job rotation. Hosting new arrivals will require creating new jobs and having new jobs may end up requiring importing people from elsewhere or putting out job ads in other towns advertising the town as a swell place to live because many job roles are done in teams and creating certain jobs will mean having to fill up a team even if some of the team mates are independent workers and others work full time on a schedule.
Most places also have extra housing for shuffling people around such as leaving the high school or college area, getting a job on the other side of town, bored with the current apartment, and for new arrivals to assess their current or desired living conditions. Houses tend to stay longer, usually because they are raising kids or like their home and are not the type of person to shuffle around town all the time. As the town grows, housing and job management becomes easier. Add more jobs, more housing gets filled; add more housing and people move around again. This leaves vacancies which can be filled by adding more jobs. Eventually the town will add more jobs and add more housing and the town doesn't grow anymore for the time being. This a good time to review the town and social cohesion and make plans for future town growth or for metro consolidation if the population is strewn out over several hundred miles.
Job creation happens for the following reasons:
Fixing the Dilemma
New York has new employers and not enough housing for the people that want to work in the area at these jobs. As New York will have the same costs throughout most of the State, one of the first steps might be to ask the employers if they would like to tour the State in places where housing is available or land is available for development. New York would select the sites for visit based on available housing and available warehouses, factories, offices or land for new commercial construction or business park.
The most obvious place to look for housing at the moment in New York is Zillow, Trulia or Redfin. Zillow being the most popular. A less obvious place to look at for long term job creation and housing is Ghost Towns. This is because it will have some structures in place like roads, a few buildings, possibly a gas station and allow talking about what would be the challenges in growing that specific town to the size of 500,000 households. A household can be a single person living in a studio or 1 bedroom or it can be a family of four living in a house. It just means the people managing their affairs individually or as group within residential accommodations. Many single people living in a group have their own household within a 3 bedroom home and share the kitchen and bathrooms or other common areas.
Finally, a pretty obvious but often overlooked area for 1/2 a million new homes would be raw land. There are online listings for raw land and some can be found through city developers offices or through a natural resource office. As the Governor of New York these resources should be easy to find even if the entire listing is not readily available. There should be at least some listings in New York ready for development; some raw land is semi raw and already has a utility hookup with nearby utilities. Public works can usually get these setup to a nearby management facility.
Car Manufacturing Facility, New York
Car manufacturing is an interesting industry that will require knowledge workers and professionals in addition to factory workers, facility maintenance and logistics technicians. For example engineers, computer software developers, graphic artists and designers, a marketing department. And a lot of the skills are easily transferable as long as there is not a conflict of interest with the car manufacturing facility.
In addition to the actual car, people are asking for features such as plateless vehicles with a transponder the police can activate. Activation will notify the driver that the police have scanned the vehicle and they will get a vehicle clear or pull over notification in the vehicle. Self driving cars would alert the primary passenger. This would reduce the need for sirens and flashing lights to get people's attention. The transponders would also work during accidents or road incidents where an onscreen touchscreen would show other transponders and allow the driver or front passenger to select the vehicle of interest to submit a police or accident report. It will usually be the vehicles closest to the car involved in an incident and can help with hit and run. The investigation would determine if further action is needed on the incident and the drivers can remain safe inside their vehicles until police or emergency services arrive. No driver or vehicle information would be exchanged between drivers during an incident. The transponder identifiers would be submitted to an attorney, insurance provider or police force based on type of incident and owner or driver preference and each person could type a report or statement in car, through a smartphone app, by phone call or through email. This reduces the need for hostile or stressful interaction during an incident and the plateless feature makes it nearly impossible to track or stalk a vehicle in a big city or rural area between two strangers. Especially with privacy tint on windows which can increase feelings of safety and reduce anxiety. All non incident data would be privacy protected and non-trackable.
Other features being requested in new vehicles is preparation for faster speed limits such as the current 80 MPH speed limits in Texas and the 70 MPH speed limits in the North Midwest and better integration via Bluetooth API to the cars entertainment and navigation system from consumer or business devices running Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS.
Examining Wages, Inflation and Housing Costs
How much should I pay the employees is one of the first questions employers contemplate when starting a new business. For small towns, it really doesn't matter. The employees can be paid $7.25 per hour for 40 hours and have affordable housing at less than 30% of monthly wages. e.g $290 per week, $15,080 per year, no 2 weeks off, weekends and bank holidays only, no sick time, no benefits, 15%-22% taxes based on national avg. $1256.66 monthly avg (varies by 4 week or 5 week month) $377.00 maximum rent cost Food might be limited to processed foods such as highly processed sliced bread, bulk bologna meat, sliced cheese blocks, occasional gallons of milk, frozen vegetables, canned fruits and dollar menu items at 1 or 2 restaurants.
Accounting for taxes, the rent might be $250 to $275 to avoid keeping up on tax rates and formulas or up to $325 if the property manager is willing to do a little math and tax rate tracking.
So that would be your town and people will likely be willing to move there.
Often, the $7.25 minimum wage is used for wage garnishment. People who have been heavily fined, faced bankruptcy, had property lost, damaged or stolen but still own 1 house and 1 vehicle can often work at any job and have their wages garnished all the way down to $7.25. Usually because they own a home and vehicle, most of the money they keep is for their personal items like cable, restaurants, clothes and outings. If they can make $50 to $60 per hour, they can get a lot of fines paid off really fast and because they own their home, their financial situation doesn't seem too humiliating to outsiders.
But the $7.25 minimum can also be used for college kids to save money, for work training programs, to create low cost of living areas and to transition people away from communism when arriving in the USA through questionable means from a communist area of Earth. Those arriving through less questionable means often get ramped up to capitalism at home.
The standard wage can be anything. You figure in the cost of a few necessities for the area. Food, transportation, vehicle fuel or bus pass, doctor checkups, teeth cleaning, eye checkup, rent, t.v, clothes and savings. Savings to start off can be just a few hundred dollars so they can switch jobs. A low cost gym or large park for walks and bicycling is also helpful if the area doesn't get too sweaty and humid.
$14-$15 per hour with $12 to $13 lowered wages usually works well in most areas. Many big metros aren't composed only of high income earners and the economy has to work well for all those legally present as a starting point. Then it can include those who arrived through questionable means but need money to return home or pay for an attorney if the location desires that.
Inflation is usually a measuring contest between landlords, business owners and basic necessity providers to see who can become the richest or who can make the most money without affecting the people's daily living conditions. It sometimes includes bankers charging exorbitant interest on loans but that is rare in more recent times.
Today, rent and jobs dictate the majority of an economy and a place that pays a warehouse worker $75 per hour might only accept the highest performers from other areas because that area has mostly high income earners and they still need to have items imported, sorted and sold so they can dress nice and look sharp at their work meetings and have necessities such as food and restaurants.
Many warehouse jobs pay $15 to $22 per hour throughout most of the USA and they can afford their own apartment. Some choose to live with a friend in a 2 bedroom to save money, send money back home, buy presents for young kids in their family or to save for a house if they plan to start a family and to visit family on holidays even if its only occasionally.
At $22 per hour with 15% tax rate and 30% of take home pay for rent. Rent should be around $972. $972 per month will get a lot of people a really nice place but some will choose to live in a smaller place and save more for retirement and rest periods.
At $22 per hour with 22% tax rate and 30% of take home pay for rent. Rent should be around $892.
At $14 per hour with 15% tax rate and 30% of take home pay for rent. Rent should be around $618.
At $14 per hour with 22% tax rate and 30% of take home pay for rent.
Rent should be around $567.
Here, a lot of areas might start requiring room mates because long term housing vouchers are more often only for the permanently disabled or those that didn't save enough for retirement but as wages increase, they might have an extra $81 per month saved before they are able to live on their own again if they share a $972 unit instead of striving for the $567.
Many places try not to grind everyone at the maximum affordability rate for these reasons and might lower the rent on the $567 to $525 and lower sales tax or fuel prices or transportation costs until they can get the wages up or the federal taxes come down. They might require issuing a $50 food card each month or face a fine at the end of the taxation period. The price difference is lowering affordability from 30% of take home to 28% of take home for the lowest cost units but making that changes area wide might negatively affect a lot more than the income of property managers.
Usually people don't want to go lower than $525 for the lowest cost single person home in an area. A lot of areas require a $15.50 to $16 per hour full-time regular wage for the lowest cost unit to live in the area when there is a 22% total income tax rate.
Additionally, housing is subject to the same price gouging rules as all businesses. Housing affordability is the maximum allowed rent percentages for lower to medium income workers. While a person making $200k a year and a 22% tax rate can't be charged $3,900 per month for a $525 apartment, if there is one available and they choose to live there, it is to be at the same price as for everyone else. The issue with housing prices in this example is that lowest waged workers will be prioritized for those apartments first but if there is vacancy and availability they can rent those units just as a high income earner can not be restricted from shopping at a dollar store or discount store. A high income earner can also not be targeted to spend most of their income on rent on be told everything is vacant except $3,900 places. This can prevent retirement savings, leisure or savings for an owned home. A high income earner may also be able to afford more than 30% of housing costs but chose to spend their money elsewhere or to save it. For example, $200k at 22% tax rate might allow them to afford $8k rent for a short period of time but they may not want to do that long term. They may not be willing to pay more than $1,500 on rent because that's the most anyone in the area pays. But the opposite is not true. A $13/hr worker wont be able to find housing that is more expensive than their allotted threshold.
Thinking of a big data example, with 1,000 units at $525 and price gouging and fair market rules in the area; if 800 units are renting at 30% maximum rent and there are 200 units available if people want to live there that are making $60k and $100k they should be allowed to live there if there is room available. But the manager may sometimes restrict units like these to less than 25 people above a certain income level because the remaining 175 are needed for new arrivals or shuffling people around. They may require a review at the end of the stay and the renters would have to finish the lease or pay early termination fees if leaving early.
Finally, A $2000 per month minimum rent indicates that the lowest paid worker who lives on their own makes $45 per hour with a 15% tax rate and gets paid even more than that when there are higher tax rates. Other data points such as cost of food, cost of fuel, cost of transportation or medical care would also need to be checked and may result in personal budget reporting and or savings auditing for an area.
Included in the references are various links to housing and wage data that is recent and comes from diverse viewpoints and publications. Many focus on specific data and some focus on the big picture or general overview.
Preventing Homelessness
Despite all this planning and resource allocation, some people will still end up homeless. Many cities pick up rough sleepers and take them to processing areas where they can attend court and receive court orders regarding trespassing, nuisance charges, public health charges and personal hygiene. This is a specialized area of housing that is dealt with differently throughout the world, links are included in the references.
In order to stay in a hotel and not be considered homeless, a person must have 15 days worth of hotel rent in addition to the money paid for the day, week or month. This means on rent day, the hotel renter must have rent for the stay plus 14 days worth of rent at all times in addition to money for food and transportation so that they are not considered homeless.
A Walt Disney World Worker living in Florida in a weekly rent hotel that costs $149 per week requires at least $300 at all times in addition to food expenses and upcoming rent. Because if the savings balance drops below that amount, they will be considered homeless under US Code Title 42 Chapter 119 Section 11302.
Video can not be viewed on Government Devices that ban Tik Tok.
https://www.tiktok.com/@gammisoou/video/7195037095616843051
Solving homelessness is an important part of creating jobs. It is one of the biggest criticisms of the USA. Two policies in regards to working areas at the moment include relocating homeless to areas with adequate caseworkers and building temporary housing payments and/or moving assistance (to smaller units), into an areas government services that are available for full time workers and funded by taxes. This helps during economic crashes and is not meant as long term housing solutions because exhausting government services available for full-time workers will cause relocation to another area with homeless caseworkers.
References
Ghost Towns
Ghost Towns by Geotab [select New York]
https://www.geotab.com/ghost-towns/
List of New York Ghost towns by Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_New_York
List of New York Ghost Towns by Ghostowns.com
The homepage autodownloads a .mid file (do not go to the homepage), if you want to view other states change "ny/ny" to your state initials e.g "nj/nj" or "ct/ct"
http://ghosttowns.com/states/ny/ny.html
Data Samples
Normaltown dataset by data.gov
See the public safety app for a sample of what a housing crises/job seeker map might look like.
https://town-of-normal-open-data-tongis.hub.arcgis.com/
Anytown Simulator showing Covid spread by data.gov
Picture a crises spread simulator caused by an economic crash using job availability, savings threshold, housing availability per wage bracket and number of government workers available to process paperwork as simulator data points.
https://covidweb.isi.jhu.edu/simulator
Aggregated Wage to Housing Data and Reports
What You Can Rent on a Minimum-Wage Salary in Every State by Go Banking Rates
Find states where minimum wage workers can live on their own and discover how many roommates minimum wage workers need to stay housed in your state.
https://www.gobankingrates.com/investing/real-estate/rent-minimum-wage-salary-every-state/
How much money a single person needs to earn to get by in every U.S. state by CNBC
In 2010, before the minimum wage hike, a single person could rent a room in Los Angeles for $325 to $450 a month and get by on around $20k per year for food (mostly value menu and coupons/no kitchen at home), clothes, bus/train pass and free medical care (avoided) or low cost medical care (low cost clinic and otc meds [preferred]). Today, it costs $900 to $1,050 for a single bedroom and $15/hr is only approximately $2,000 per month. Compare to making $1200 to $1800 per month while looking for better work prospects and paying less than $500/mo for a room in Los Angeles back in 2010. Data is most likely to share a 2-3 bedroom in Los Angeles for California.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/income-a-single-person-needs-to-get-by-in-every-us-state.html
This map shows how much you have to earn to afford rent in every state by Don't Waste Your Money
I got $28-$32 per hour for a 1 bedroom in Los Angeles in 2022
(consider car, car insurance and car fuel in addition to more expensive food costs)
https://www.dontwasteyourmoney.com/earn-rent-every-state/
How Much Do You Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment in Your State? by National Low Income Housing Coalition
The actual map.
Anything less than 80/wk will allow 2 minimum wage workers to live as room mates. Oregon e.g. requires 1 hour of overtime per room mate per week, Utah requires 12 but with OT it should be 9 or an extra 4.5 hours each room mate per week.
https://nlihc.org/oor
Minimum Wage Tracker by Economic Policy Institute
https://www.epi.org/minimum-wage-tracker/
Minimum wage in America: How many people are earning $7.25 an hour? https://usafacts.org/articles/minimum-wage-america-how-many-people-are-earning-725-hour/
Characteristics of minimum wage workers, 2020
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2020/home.htm
Florida’s Minimum Wage Changes Through 2026 by Florida State University Office of Human Resources
https://hr.fsu.edu/article/floridas-minimum-wage-changes-through-2026
Minimum Wage is Not Enough: A True Living Wage is Necessary to Reduce Poverty and Improve Health by Drexel University
https://drexel.edu/hunger-free-center/research/briefs-and-reports/minimum-wage-is-not-enough/
The hourly wage needed to rent a 2-bedroom apartment is rising by Business Insider
https://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-wage-needed-to-rent-a-2-bedroom-2016-5
The Hourly Wage Needed to Rent a 2-Bedroom Apartment Is Rising by Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-25/the-hourly-wage-needed-to-rent-a-2-bedroom-apartment-in-2016-mapped
Housing Isn’t Affordable for Minimum Wage Workers Anywhere in the U.S. by US News
There are several places where they can share a 2-3 bedroom and a few places where they are pretty close to a studio or 1 bedroom. Within $100 or 10 hours of overtime. See other resources and data collectors. The goal is to create an adequate standard of living and a realistic assessment for long term minimum wage workers.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2021-07-14/housing-isnt-affordable-for-minimum-wage-workers-anywhere-in-the-us
Minimum wage workers can’t afford rent anywhere in America
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/homes/rent-affordability-minimum-wage/index.html
Here’s the hourly wage you need to make to afford a two-bedroom apartment in every state by Yahoo!News
Omits data that is referenced in article title
https://news.yahoo.com/hourly-wage-afford-two-bedroom-183721154.html
Homeless Data
Good housing options is just as important as good job availability as is clean and hygienic areas when attracting long term workers or temporary employees who might be travelers that need to do a good job to make some money and be on their way to the next adventure.
Looking at the Rural Homelessness Experience: Definitions, Data, and Solutions by Rural Health Info
See number of homeless per State image.
https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/rural-monitor/rural-homelessness/
Cities that Have Solved Homelessness by CAUF Society
https://caufsociety.com/cities-solving-homelessness/
Here's how Finland solved its homelessness problem
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/how-finland-solved-homelessness
City Lab Bloomberg maps Homeless Areas
Often have lack of jobs, lack of housing or both
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/572731277582242202/
Government Programs and Legislation
US Code T42C119SS11302 See a5Aii http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section11302&num=0&edition=prelim
US Code T42C8SS1437 See a1A and a1B http://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title42-section1437a&num=0&edition=prelim
HUD User Fair Market Rents
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr.html
Emergency Shelter Grants Programs
https://www.hudexchange.info/programs/emergency-shelter-grants/emergency-shelter-grants-program-requirements/
@HUDgov announced $2.8B in annual homelessness funding for thousands of local homeless
https://twitter.com/usichgov/status/1640760840126169092
Rapid Rehousing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Re-Housing
Housing Resources in Los Angeles
California Community Colleges Student Housing Unit
https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/College-Finance-and-Facilities-Planning/Affordable-Student-Housing
Housing Rights Center
https://www.housingrightscenter.org/get-help
Los Angeles City Housing
https://housing.lacity.org/housing
Los Angeles County Housing
https://housing.lacounty.gov/
Epath Los Angeles
https://epath.org/regions/greater-los-angeles/
Watts Labor Community Action Committee
https://wlcac.org/contact/
Renter Complaints
They have the audacity to ask for 800 credit score, 3xs rent income, and $50 application fee
How to move to a socially cohesive unit?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/they-have-the-audacity-to-ask-for-800-credit-score-3xs-rent-income-and-dollar50-application-fee-renter-finds-out-apartment-is-noisy-on-first-day-after-moving-out-of-old-place-due-to-noise/ar-AA1aTQOo
States revolt against Biden's 'disaster' mortgage retribution rule
Why bother saving to purchase if have to subsidize those with bad credit
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gen-z-hardest-generation-work-according-survey-they-lack-discipline-like-challenge-you
Employment Difficult to obtain/maintain
https://www.foxnews.com/media/gen-z-hardest-generation-work-according-survey-they-lack-discipline-like-challenge-you
Private Resources
How to Start a Homeless Shelter in 2023 [Business Plan]
https://www.ideaflight.com/start-homeless-shelter/
$20k per Person Housing soon to be used in Silicon Valley
https://www.fastcompany.com/90578339/these-modular-rooms-can-help-cities-quickly-and-cheaply-build-housing-for-the-homeless
Low-Income vs. Affordable
https://www.apartmentlist.com/renter-life/low-income-vs-affordable-housing
6 Methods for Building Homes Faster in 2022
https://www.foxblocks.com/blog/fastest-way-to-build-a-house
6 Fastest Construction Methods For Houses
https://homeworlddesign.com/6-fastest-construction-methods-for-houses/
Homeless Resources and Program Availability in Los Angeles
Weingart
https://www.weingart.org/housing-solutions
The Midnight Mission [Annenberg Building?]
https://www.midnightmission.org/our-services/
Union Rescue Mission
https://urm.org/solution/
Uncle Dave's Housing
https://www.uncledaveshousing.org/houses/
LISC LA
https://www.lisc.org/los-angeles/what-we-do/affordable-housing/
Delancey Street
http://delanceystreetfoundation.org/hww.php