This. Huge swathes of public housing in my town were condemned, evacuated for the “safety” of the residents (who were promised they’d be rehoused if they survived the free market for 5-10 years in one of the most expensive housing bubbles on earth), & then quietly turned into condos when nobody was looking.
The artists & makers who survived Viet Nam, Nixon, Reagan, AIDS, CIA contra crack, & other wonders of late-stage capitalism are now living on Social Security in tiny rooms in “senior housing” downtown. They are the people who gave us Gay Pride, the tech revolution, bearded drag, freeganism, psychedelic art, & “Free To Be, You & Me.” Ben Carson, never the sharpest scalpel in the drawer, will be the blunt instrument that does them in.
