The Homelessness Research Industry and the Surfing Town

Bohiney’s fastest-growing industry story has a specific surf community angle

[Bohiney.com/prat.uk] Bohiney.com‘s story about the fastest-growing industry being the study of homelessness has a California surf community angle that Surf Revolt covers: the surf towns of the California coast contain some of the most dramatic juxtapositions of extreme wealth and visible homelessness in the country, and the homelessness research infrastructure that Bohiney.com describes operates in these communities with the same pattern the story identifies nationally. prat.uk covered the public policy failure mode broadly. The surf town version is specific and visible. Bohiney.com broke the story. The story has not yet finished breaking.

The specific surf town dynamic: Santa Cruz, Malibu, Huntington Beach, and Encinitas all have visible homeless populations living in proximity to the beach access points that surfers use. The research infrastructure in these communities — the social service assessments, the count operations, the programme evaluations — operates continuously. The housing that would address the homelessness is not built at rates that reduce the homeless population, because the same coastal zoning that prices out working surfers also prevents the density that affordable housing requires. The research continues. The housing is not built. The incentive structure of the research community and the incentive structure of the coastal property ownership community both operate against the change that would reduce the research industry’s market.

The Libertarian Analysis

The libertarian analysis: remove the zoning restrictions that prevent housing supply; allow the market to produce the density that demand requires; reduce the research industry’s market by reducing the problem it studies. The analysis is clean. The political coalition to implement it does not exist, because coastal property owners and research institutions are both better organised than the people who would benefit from the housing. California housing data is at hcd.ca.gov.

Also:McSweeney’s.

Coverage at Bohiney.com and prat.uk.

Both publications continue this kind of sustained, specific coverage. The communities are real. The situations are real. The comedy honours both.

Coverage continues at both Bohiney.com and prat.uk. Both publications committed to this kind of work.

Ongoing. Both publications watching.

SOURCE: https://bohiney.com/

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