Introduction.
Golden Gates is a book written by Conor Dougherty recently. It is the first work of the writer that was published in early 2020. The book seeks to address the issue of housing in united states. In recent decades there have been high rates on rents and increasing cost to own a home. This has been the symbol inequality in the society and economic default in the nation. Dougherty, under her vivid analysis, finds out that this problem is more witness in San Francisco Bay Area. According to research, there are more than 90,000 people in California who are sleeping on the streets. This has led to many social crimes that are associated with the housing problem. To mitigate housing problem authority must take into consideration casualties that may arise when solutions are initiated.
Several topics have been highlighted in the book that is related to the housing crisis that is being experienced in San Francisco. Destruction of the natural environment and forest by the homeless to create a home. Political alignments have also been identified as a factor that has a hand on the housing crisis in the region. On these topics, the Author gives a shallow discussion on them. Both political effects and environmental destructions are quite essential but inadequately addressed by the Author. San Francisco Bay Area is the most affected area on this crisis will benefit more if more research is done on this topic and a superb solution initiated to mitigate the situation.
Arguments
The environment around the San Francisco Bay Area is being destroyed; this is a witness with the fleets of the private bus that have been noticed ferrying homeless software engineers create home past the tarp-and-plywood shanties. This will ultimately lead to the destruction of the natural environment. The natural environment is the future of any nation that wishes to keep the natural ecosystem at a standard level. The political impact on the housing crisis can be drowned from the corner of rent being charged on the houses, according to the Author the government has failed to ensure that the rental fee for homes is kept at the reasonable level.
Construction of more housing unit is also a government obligation to eradicate this crisis. Dougherty identifies one of the math teacher who leads a movement to eradicated single-family house neighbourhoods. A teenage girl who lead tenant against their landlord who has been raising rent progressively. There was a nun who opted to provide a multimillion-dollar investment of affordable rental houses.
All these individuals, among others, are seen as an iconic being who tried to mitigate the housing crisis. The Author did not highlight the conclusion that probably could be a solution to the problem being faced but on recommended that the government should consider having an answer and initiating them to mitigate this crisis being confronted. The examples given on the individuals who had a hand to solving is also a call by the Author to humanitarian to provide and hand to all the efforts that are being made to end this housing crisis.
Research and evidence
Different studies have been done by various individuals seeking to address the housing crisis. The common aspect of most of the research is that they all try to identify the housing crisis, but what seems to bring disparities is the solution they recommend. Any study aims to mitigate what is facing society. Thus we focus on the solution that is being highlighted to solve the problems. The environment is paramount to the maintenance of a dependable ecosystem. According to Lévesque on the effects of the housing crisis on the ground, he argues that housing problems bring about air pollution. This can be seen in the fact that there will be congestion and destruction of the natural environment; ultimately, the air will not be filtered; this is because of imbalanced in the ecosystem. Coming up with new settlement will mean that forest and natural environment will be destroyed, this involved cutting down of trees and burning up of the forest. This will lead to the emission of smoke to the sky, thus creating global warming.
On of the solution to the housing crisis is eviction, and this activity is associated with social problems. According to Michel Vols and Sarah Fick on their research of using displacement to compact house crime, it is witness that the housing crisis has a hand to the increasing social crimes and accidents. Rape cases, robbery and attack, have been linked to people who lack homes. Accidents have also been identified in a broader way to be propagated by the housing crisis and overpopulation. There has been an incidence of fire on many residential places that are congested; these areas are congested basically because of the housing crisis being faced.
On the review of the golden gates by Francesca Mari, he gives a scenario where a woman sleeping in a cardboard box was crushed to death by a loader. These are some of the social crime and accidents that come with the housing crisis. According to Katherine on neighbourhood defenders she highlights the participation of politics in compacting housing crisis in America, the government is responsible for a batter housing policy. Housing policy cut across rental rates, ownership regulation and requirements, and both landlord and tenants rights. The government should take action to mitigate housing problems by ensuring that there are enough housing units at affordable precise., this is done through government real estate. These are the obligation of the American government.
Conclusion
Generally, the housing problem is a significant crisis that does not only affect third world countries, but even the most developed superpower nations are on board trying to curb this crisis. Conor Dougherty on her book she investigated several housing problems being faced and casualties that come with them. These casualties are seen as the topics to research on in a broader view and solution initiated to mitigate this significant crisis. Although she did not give away to initiate resolution, the housing crisis can be curbed with by ensuring superb government system that ought to solve problems that are faced by the subjects.