The cost of housing in the United States shows how horrendous living under a system that values profit over the care for productive members of society is. However, there is a shine of hope: people are starting to realize that.
Recently, Nashua’s Housing Trust Fund started accepting proposals to build affordable housing. The fund will be $10 million from the American Rescue Plan given to Nashua during the pandemic.
According to NHPR, “The city plans to allocate the funds to developers who have the capability and team to bring affordable housing proposals to completion. Nashua hasn’t disclosed yet how much assistance a project could receive or how many projects will be chosen, but its local government officials are clear that the money has to be destined exclusively for affordable housing construction or promotion.”
This sounds like terrific news. I feel creating affordable housing is perhaps the most important issue in the United States and it is especially important for New Hampshire.
According to an article from 24/7 Wall St, in N.H. a typical single-family home cost $381,978 while the typical annual household income is $77,933.
It is so terrible some people are barely able to afford a roof over their heads and a bed to sleep on. This is something that has given me an incredible amount of anxiety for the future. I sincerely hope I will be able to afford to live my life with my future job. In fact, I would be a whole lot more excited to work if I knew for sure I would be able to live.
There have been points in my life where I have not been as productive as I would have liked to. This solely relies on if I feel being productive would even be worth the trouble. I absolutely want to be more and more productive, but I am often left so depressed by how profit is valued more than productivity.
It is such a shame to think about how not only I, but many other people as well feel a great amount of sorrow over the very poorly regulated hyper capitalistic society called the United States. It depresses me more to think how many more great thinkers and artists there would be if they were just valued enough to live. This is not to mention how undervalued the working class is.
It is time we as a society recognize that the American Dream is a lie to keep the lower class down. The poor are most likely not going to move in their social status if things stay the same. We in America have more of a caste system than a class system.
I resonate a lot with a quote by the late comedian George Carlin, “That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Thankfully many people are not remaining asleep. The lower class is seeing how destructive the lies that keep them down are. I say it is about time.
Nico Brazill can be contacted at
nbrazill@kscequinox.com
