A big issue where I live is the rise in housing costs. For some years now, the price of housing in Southern California has been skyrocketing. What is required to buy even a modest home here would buy practical palaces in other parts of the country. Renting isn’t easy either. Poorer neighborhoods are being renovated and replaced with condos, leaving these families with little alternative.
Enter ACORN, a nation wide community group that brings to light the needs of lower and middle-income families. Their position is that low income housing should be made available to lower income families and current housing be left alone so that current families wont be put out by high priced real-estate developers.
While it is a nice sentiment, I feel that ACORN simply does not go far enough. While they address the issues that low-income families face, it does not look into why there are low-income families to begin with. Groups like ACORN simply provide assistance to survive in capital society without upsetting the balance (or imbalance too be more precise) that exists between different socio-economic groups. Instead of facilitating low-income families in the struggle to survive in an unjust society, they would be much better off suggesting that we end the wages system, which would allow all people to comfortably live without regard to income.
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