{"id":12068,"date":"2025-01-16T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=12068"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:41:27","slug":"churches-should-pay-to-house-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=12068","title":{"rendered":"Churches Should Pay to House the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?attachment_id=12070\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12070\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/25-01-16-BLOG-Homeless-300x200.webp\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/25-01-16-BLOG-Homeless-300x200.webp 300w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/25-01-16-BLOG-Homeless-768x512.webp 768w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/25-01-16-BLOG-Homeless.webp 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><\/a>It\u2019s esti\u00admat\u00aded that church\u00ades in Cana\u00adda own approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly $26,406,700,000 in land and build\u00adings that they pay lit\u00adtle or no tax\u00ades on. In 2018 alone, they were exempt\u00aded from $881,838,422 in munic\u00adi\u00adpal tax\u00ades, and that is a typ\u00adi\u00adcal year\u00adly fig\u00adure [source: Cen\u00adtre for Inquiry Cana\u00adda report for 2021]. In order to main\u00adtain their ridicu\u00adlous priv\u00adi\u00adleged sta\u00adtus, every church should be required to pay for the hous\u00ading and care for an appro\u00adpri\u00adate num\u00adber of home\u00adless peo\u00adple \u2014- and this should be car\u00adried out by sec\u00adu\u00adlar offi\u00adcials so that they don\u2019t use this as an oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adty to impose their reli\u00adgion on help\u00adless peo\u00adple. This is sim\u00adple jus\u00adtice. Any reli\u00adgious orga\u00adni\u00adza\u00adtion that oppos\u00ades such a mea\u00adsure would only reveal that their reli\u00adgion is pho\u00adny, and that their oper\u00ada\u00adtions are a scam. If they do not agree to this, they should be treat\u00aded as the com\u00admer\u00adcial enter\u00adpris\u00ades that they real\u00adly&nbsp;are.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s esti\u00admat\u00aded that church\u00ades in Cana\u00adda own approx\u00adi\u00admate\u00adly $26,406,700,000 in land and build\u00adings that they pay lit\u00adtle or no tax\u00ades on. In 2018 alone, they were exempt\u00aded from $881,838,422 in munic\u00adi\u00adpal tax\u00ades, and that is a typ\u00adi\u00adcal year\u00adly fig\u00adure [source: \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=12068\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ab-blog-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12068"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12072,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12068\/revisions\/12072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}