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It's simple. We need more fucking housing. Period. End of story. We need condo towers. We need townhomes. We need mid-rises. And secondly, we need free and lo
by crushcrashcrush 8y ago
It's simple.
We need more fucking housing. Period. End of story. We need condo towers. We need townhomes. We need mid-rises.
And secondly, we need free and low cost mental health services.
That's it. Problem solved. The problem is we're 20 years behind.
- rak00n 8y agoNope, your just indentfied the problem that needs to be solved. You haven't "solved" the problem, which is massively more complex.
- crushcrashcrush 8y agoYou must be really fun at cocktail parties.
- notacoward 8y agoMore affordable housing only solves a problem for those with moderate incomes. Evidence: every other city in the US that has cheaper housing but also still plenty of homeless. Free and low-cost mental health services are closer to the mark, but still far from a simple problem. Many homeless people have complex, multi-faceted problems. Many resist initial contact. Many have trouble with maintaining any kind of regular schedule for either medication or counseling. Funding that many therapists (not just head-counters) and ensuring their security is a challenge unto itself. Not a simple problem at all. If there's one thing that makes Silicon Valley unpleasant to me, it's the "simple, just do X" hand-wave that so many there indulge in regarding every damn topic. I'm sure your job isn't so simple a child could do it. Why act like everybody else's is?