Truth. Sacrifice. Radical Conviction.
I am going to explain the housing crisis. This will take less time than you think, because the housing crisis is not complicated. It is merely treated as complicated by people who benefit from the complication.
Here is the housing crisis in one sentence: we decided that the place where people live should also be the primary vehicle for wealth accumulation, and we are surprised that these two functions are incompatible.
They told me the relocation was voluntary. They told me the families were given notice. They told me the process was conducted with dignity and in accordance with the law.
I went to the settlement.
I want to be precise about what I saw, because precision is the enemy of the official narrative, and the official narrative is what I am here to dismantle.
The settlement is on the eastern edge of the city, where the paved roads end and the unpaved roads begin. Forty-three families were living there two weeks ago. Today, the structures are gone. What remains are concrete foundations, scattered belongings, and the marks in the earth where walls used to be.