Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 22, 2024

Cats would love it.

Get in on the ground floor, they said.

Card-boarding house?

tRump’s idea of housing for the poor!

“You had a box!? We were so poor …"

One of the many people bumped out of a shelter to make room for the multitudes of undoctumented people that Biden allowed to enter this country!

Not funny!

They won’t rent it, they will buy it. Then double the rent.

It was recently made illegal for people to “camp” on the streets here. But there is no provision saying where those who have too can go to be someplace “else”.

Probably intended as work force housing. Not to worry, someone will buy them up and turn them in Short Term Rentals.

I should have bought stock in paper and cardboard 50 years ago. Who knew?

More the result of the last housing bubble bursting. Where did you think all those foreclosed houses went to? If they hit the market for sale, there would be a glut. They’ve been bought up hedge funds, bundled into rental corporations and put on the rental market at inflated prices.

Looks like the housing bubble might be popping soon. I just read an article yesterday that financial institutes have been hiding the default and foreclosure numbers. Greed will only get you so far. Slapping a McMansion price tag on a regular single-family home was bound to come back and bite them on the…

With a little luck, this will be our last house. With the master bedroom suite on the ground floor, it’s well designed for older people.

There goes the neighborhood.

Early man evolved as a migratory species. He followed his food. He followed the ripening of fruits and vegetables and the movement of herds. And he moved away from danger. Once he discovered agriculture, he stayed in one place longer — until the harvests failed or other disasters occurred. Then he moved on. He built small communities and developed diversified skills and learned to work together with more than just his family. And, whenever disaster struck - whether it be environmentally or human-caused, he moved on. He moved from Africa all the way around the world, one disaster at a time. After the advent of “civilization”, he continued to do so. Early man walked to every spot of land that was habitable. Later man sailed across the ocean in large ships to “found” America. All people wanting to survive, to find a better, safer world for their families, just moving on [understanding that one group’s desire to move in could force another group to move out]. However, as we move nowadays, there are no new worlds to settle in, only worlds where huge groups of people have already claimed ownership. What we have never realized through all the centuries of almost constant motion is that we are the only species that has the ability to find other ways to handle the problems that force people into migration.

So who’d be best as Biden’s replacement? And does that person have a chance?

Of course, you’ll probably design it with only upscale carboard boxes and the really plush bubble wrap for insulation and padding on the floor/cold ground. And a BSA to answer to (Box Squatter’s Association)

Box his ears!

I was going to say the same. You’re more eloquent.

…The ‘official’ narrative is banks paid back TARP $$$…NOBODY says how many trillions of $$$ people lost in savings and house assets and lives…

sigh… if these kinds of remarks continue, comments for non-sequitur will be blocked as well! stop it!

Lots of those new developments can be found under freeway overpasses

A comic from the future, after tRump wins election.

Wrong shape for a pyramid scheme…..

Do “big-box” stores make a lot of profit off of this particular customer base?

I recall a joke (a bad one) where a person was arrested with his friend. the police asked for his address and he said “no fixed abode”. In frustration the policeman turned to his friend and asked him where he lived, to which the man replied “the floor above him”. :/

. . . as long as the stock market’s high

Catch him sheltering in a cardboard box; and what about all the cats looking for empty boxes to crawl into?

I’m hoping to have a nicer box under a bridge when I retire.

That’s not even one tenth full.