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How many of those homeless would choose to re-enter those institutions if they were available? Would you rather be homeless or in jail if given the choice? Pe
by shkkmo 8y ago
How many of those homeless would choose to re-enter those institutions if they were available?
Would you rather be homeless or in jail if given the choice?
Perhaps we can find a third option where safe and supportive communities are provided that have various levels of minimal removal of agency.
- skookumchuck 8y agoYes, I'd rather be homeless than in an institution.
- Nomentatus 8y agoI was in government as a policy analyst in just this area when these changes were happening, and fulsome promises of just such a third way were made endlessly at the time. I knew perfectly well even then that these promises were just hot air, because it was conservative governments were closing institutions, merely to save money and reduce taxes. But people elect whoever is willing to provide them with the lies that excuse the voter's most preferred (cruel-but-cheap) options.
- mcguire 8y agoOr perhaps we can just let them fend for themselves and if they end up living under an overpass until they die of something entirely preventable, well, to paraphrase a Firesign Theatre skit, "that's their thing."