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ShazamIam

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9. Back in 1981 as the public housing funds were cut for the tax cut for the billionaires, those same

Reply to Uncle Joe (Original post)

Fri Nov 19, 2021, 02:14 PM

Nov 2021

billionaires promised the, "free market," would provide cheaper housing for the poor. They did, sidewalks, ally-ways, freeway underpasses and landscaping are the ultimate cheap housing.

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