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How to Make Money From Tent Cities

Interests will clash from time to time, as the landlord wants to raise rents and the capitalist does not want to raise wages. It is at those times that we see increases in homelessness.

One way to look at it is that we live inside a machine that makes homeless people. Instead of replacing the machine, we’ve painted a mural on it. 

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Drug Dealers Ask for Police Protection

There are other interests in the neighborhood in which these businesses are located, namely those who live and work there, but they don’t have an Alderman, as they haven’t purchased one.

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Who Really Killed Milwaukee's Food Trucks? A Politically Homeless Investigation

The institution Bauman cited as his primary motivation for introducing this ordinance had its most significant financial benefactor — a man with a building named after him on their campus — testify in support of the same ordinance. That benefactor is also a restaurant owner whose testimony at the hearing explicitly referenced restaurant patronage. And he identified himself in a way that concealed every one of those financial interests.

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