The Greater Depression is already here. From E.J. Antoni at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression, they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles,” after President Herbert Hoover. Today, Americans increasingly live out of their cars because they can’t afford housing. If history is any guide, will parking lots full of Americans soon be known as “Bidenvilles”?
The problem has gotten so bad that Sedona, Arizona, recently set aside a parking lot exclusively for these homeless workers. The city is even installing toilets and showers for the new occupants.
Apparently, the City Council thought installing temporary utilities was cheaper than solving the area’s cost-of-living crisis.
And what a crisis it is.
The average home in the city sells for $930,000, while most of the housing available for rent is not apartments, but luxury homes targeted at wealthy people on vacation.
With such a shortage of middle-class housing and with starter homes essentially nonexistent, low- and even middle-income blue-collar workers have nowhere to go at night but their back seat.
Much like America’s Great Depression in the 1930s, this marks a serious regression in our national standard of living. But shantytowns were not prevalent in the 1920s (a decade that began with a depression) or the 1910s. Nor were they ubiquitous following the Panic of 1907, which set off one of the worst recessions in American history.
Party like it’s 1929 and that Dwight Yoakam cover of Purple Rain is awesome.
Even living in a van down by the river is too expensive under Brandon and the traffic at the Sack-N-Save dumpster is at an all time level, I get Rocky’s food from there.
Saw a hot blonde just jump right in dumpster and thought maybe she is out there, another night featured a young couple new to scavenging and warned them the CPUSA (D) union comrades will run you off so don’t footsie fiddle F’ around.
In 2034 they should name the Charm City bridge Brandon for the comrade mayor or Wakanda Bridge.
The future looks bright in West South Africa. (s/)