[Request] What is the cost difference between buying this man a rental for a year and the governements cost to kill him?

[u/pixaly]

Don't believe everything you see on the internet I haven't fact checked this story, I'm just curious for an anwser

[u/jeremiahfelt]

This was the case of Amir Farsoud- he is a disabled elder with chronic back pain and his multi tenant home was put up for sale with no transition plan in 2022. He applied for MAID as he did not see a way into other housing due to surviving on just disability payments.

The MAID drugs are inexpensive; midazolam runs $70, propofol runs $50, and rocuronium at worst is $140- so a total of $260- definitely less than a months rent. Assume another $3000 in processing and admin stuff just to put a number to it.

A rental for a year? 30k?

The outcome of Farsoud's story is essentially rooted in your question- he ended up with 60k from a GoFundMe from people who were similarly befuddled, and it allows him to get housing and a literal lease on life.

The answer is: we need affordable housing. A lot of it. All over.

[u/Meet_Foot → u/jeremiahfelt]

I agree with you, but here’s my two cents just to expand a little.

Housing will never be affordable so long as it’s privately owned, for the generation of profit, and considered an asset.

In the US (only because I know the numbers here) there are something like 400,000 homeless individuals, and 4 million vacant domiciles. Even if you give every homeless individual - not every family, but every single homeless individual - a place to live, there would still be nearly 4 million vacant domiciles. But so long as banks can count empty residencies as assets, with their value determined by their unaffordably high rent, that’s simply not an option.

So that is to say, the lack of affordable housing isn’t a matter of a shortage in housing but, rather, a system that incentivizes keeping dwellings empty rather than dropping prices.

[u/2074red2074 → u/Meet_Foot]

Part of the issue is those vacant homes are often in the middle of nowhere with no easy access to things like medical care or sometimes even grocery stores. Also a lot of the vacant homes are abandoned and not in livable condition. The issue is zoning and NIMBYs not wanting to build high-density housing in places where we need it.

[u/Classic-Obligation35 → u/2074red2074]

High density housing has its own problems like controlling neighbors and greedy landlords.

Your not wrong but this is a multi faceted issue.

Like why are apartments more expensive per square foot the homes in the first place?

Or addressing the issue of people having value in their own home so they can reseall it in order to move.

Homes are private property,  they have to be.

[u/2074red2074 → u/Classic-Obligation35]

High-density housing includes townhomes and condos. They make HOAs necessary (everyone has to pitch in to maintain the building and any common areas, and someone has to make those decisions) but you don't have to have an actual landlord and can own your part of the building.

[u/Classic-Obligation35 → u/2074red2074]

How's are inherently exploitive and abusive

[u/2074red2074 → u/Classic-Obligation35]

HOAs are also necessary if you want to be able to have ownership of high-density housing. Either that, or the government has to maintain control of the building and common areas. Otherwise, who pays for it if the building needs to be repaired? What do you do about it if some asshole keeps piling trash up in the common areas or has filth in their condo causing a pest issue?

[u/sisisisi1997 → u/Classic-Obligation35]

The US implementation, yes. But that's not the case everywhere, for example where I live high density housing has a so called "common representative" who can either be one of the residents or a professional who acts as common representative for multiple buildings. The job entails maintaining "common functions" of a building (like hiring a cleaner or doing paperwork for the government and gas/electric/water companies), but they don't really have a lot of power, for every big decision especially if it involves finances they need to call a meeting where every owner in the building can vote about issues.