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What people call "homelessness", are different (yet overlapping) problems that can be mitigated separately: 1) Public urination / defecation: There is a need f
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
What people call "homelessness", are different (yet overlapping) problems that can be mitigated separately:
1) Public urination / defecation: There is a need for more public bathrooms. That's cheaper than spending millions of dollars cleaning poop and urine from the streets.
2) Public intoxication and substance abuse: Decriminalizing drugs and letting people get as intoxicated as they want is not a responsible approach. The responsible approach would be to treat drug addiction as a health problem. That means, prescribing medications to help the addicts manage the reasons behind their addiction (anxiety, depression, PTSD and other conditions), their addiction, and making sure they do not overdose.
3) Littering: sentence people to do community service cleaning the litter.
4) Homelessness: Many homeless people do not want to comply with shelter rules, so they live in the streets. The shelters won't allow intoxication, drugs, etc.
- nrp 6y agoThe public bathroom issue is in part due to corruption in the city government: https://missionlocal.org/2020/02/citing-mohammed-nuru-charges-resolution-urges-san-francisco-to-flush-jcdecaux-toilet-contract/ https://missionlocal.org/2020/02/citing-mohammed-nuru-charge...
- 3131s 6y agoPublic intoxication and substance abuse: Decriminalizing drugs and letting people get as intoxicated as they want is not a responsible approach. You won't stop me or anyone else with your nanny-state laws. It's easy to get bricks in Cali, good luck!
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- 29athrowaway 6y agoThere are 2 types of states: states that people complain about, and states that nobody cares about.
- nradov 6y agoI support opening up more public restrooms but those are extremely expensive to maintain and secure in areas with large homeless populations. People use them for drug dealing and prostitution, and vandalism is constant.
- 29athrowaway 6y agoPublic bathrooms smell pretty horrible, I doubt someone may feel sexually aroused in there.