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The problem with Housing First, like with any Welfare program, it abuse. Housing First programs are ripe for abuse and are abused. While yes it is cheaper in
by syshum 6y ago
The problem with Housing First, like with any Welfare program, it abuse. Housing First programs are ripe for abuse and are abused.
While yes it is cheaper in some ways, the problem is people will be less likely to be creative or lean on personal support networks (i.e couch surfing, live with family, etc) if the government through the taxpayer will just hand you a key to an apartment no questions asked....
There were a couple of times we were technically homeless as a child, I slept many nights on the floor of my grandparents home, or an uncle, etc. so I am not unsympathetic to being in this condition. However I also do not believe government handouts are a solution to the problem
I believe in Handups, but not handouts.
- Gunax 6y agoI hate to call it abuse, but I do wonder how one avoids rewarding bad behaviour. There are a lot of poor people who work very hard to provide for their family. I don't know what should we do for them.
- jelliclesfarm 6y agoTeach them financial literacy. Upskill them. And encourage girls/women to practice safe sex. Large families without stable jobs/income end up living in the fringes of poverty and will eventually fall without a safety net. Time and again, low rates of literacy and teenage pregnancies and poor household income are correlated.
- shortandsweet 6y agoAbuse? How? And how do you know this? Where is the history of the entire world has this been attempted? I'm tired of hearing how people think it will go. Pre-critics and naysayers. I want action, drastic action that has never been done before to solve problems that have never been solved before. Offer a solution or go back to work.
- DubiousPusher 6y agoIt has been solved though. Most post industrial countries have solved or minimized it with generous safety nets.
- mbrodersen 6y agoYou seem to think that we shouldn’t do X because it is ripe for abuse and are abused. So we shouldn’t do politics then because it is ripe for abuse and are abused (corruption)? And we shouldn’t have CEO’s then because being a CEO is ripe for abuse and are abused? We shouldn’t have corporations in general for the same reason? Or is it only things you don’t like that we shouldn’t do for those reasons?