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> Shelters and low income housing up and down the peninsula don't allow drug use, don't allow people with criminal records, and some don't allow men. So they'r
by flukus 8y ago
> Shelters and low income housing up and down the peninsula don't allow drug use, don't allow people with criminal records, and some don't allow men.
So they're explicitly designed to not shelter the majority of people needing them, that seems counter-productive. Is smoking crack in the shelter somehow worse than doing it in the street? Are they supposed to work out their addiction problem while they've got no where to live and no job?
If you're going to run shelters like that then they're just a feel good measure to make people think there's help available and nothing more.
- pintxo 8y ago> Is smoking crack in the shelter somehow worse than doing it in the street? Certainly it is going to be a lot worse for the politician who approved/backed this shelter, once this is packaged into a nice little media story like „X pays for smoking crack“. There are not many politicians out there willing to do the right thing and being prepared to handle the expected uninformed outrage.
- flukus 8y agoTrue, but when I said "feel good measure" I was referring to the voters that will be swayed by that sort of crap. It's a societal problem not a political one.