Dave Chappelle said he's 'not bluffing' as he threatened to pull investments from the small community where he lives if an affordable-housing development were built. Dave's publicist Carla Sims said that he "didn't kill affordable housing." They were concerned with the approach to the development.

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[–]Canbot 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Projects like this are doomed to cause more harm than good because the people they are pretending to help have no incentive to do better. Instead it is throwing fuel on a fire by rewarding horrible lifestyles that hurt everyone around them.

Welfare programs should come with counseling, monitoring, rules, and individualized plans for improvement.

[–]xanaxagoras 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Not to mention a fixed lifetime maximum benefit, like say 36 months total for welfare.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There are already limits like that on unemployment benefits, but I don't see that working for people who never had a job and can't get one even with counseling. Some people are unemployable. But I agree that it is important to find a way to disincentivize people from refusing to work. In particular those who claim welfare but then pan handle or work off the books. I would try offering rewards to people who can prove welfare fraud and blacklist those who scam the system.

But those are nuanced solutions and we aren't even trying to fix the system. So it's all just safety regulations in a dream.