Studies in liberal governance: Related to the shibboleth of “affordable housing”–the subject of D.J. Tice’s Pioneer Press column of this past Wedneday–is the whole phenomenon of “homelessness.” Saturday the Star Tribune carried a page-one elegy lionizing one of the “homeless” Minneapolitans whose presence contributes daily to the deterioration of the city’s life: “Though homeless, metro man left a richness with others.”
This morning the New York Post carries an absolutely devastating account by William Tucker documenting the insatiable demand of the “homeless” population for housing that is supplied to meet it and that expands in response to the perverse incentives of New York’s social welfare system: “A Homeless Crisis.”
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