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What works is that we straight up give them housing, free needles, free-at-the-point-of-access healthcare, and treating addiction like we would treat a medical

What works is that we straight up give them housing, free needles, free-at-the-point-of-access healthcare, and treating addiction like we would treat a medical condition like diabetes-get them on a treatment plan without judgement. The reason why there’s a ton of inefficient waste in Democrat cities is because of bullshit NIMBYism and constant resistance to just giving people minimum standards of living due to some notion of wanting to figure out who “deserves” it more. We know what works. Needles exchanges work. Free healthcare works. Providing housing works. Strong social programs work.

diogenescynic 5y ago
Platitudes. Show me a country your model is functioning in. I don't see Portugal or other places just giving people free needles and letting drug addicts defecate all over tourist areas or make huge trash piles that look like spillover from a landfill. Why do we constantly waste money on these unaccountable programs instead of actually finding a working model? I'm all for giving them public housing and I believe in universal healthcare. But at what point after we offer them an alternative to living on the street to we force them to stop leaving needles and trash and being a public health hazard to everyone else? There has to be a carrot and a stick approach otherwise it won't work. San Francisco has tried an all carrot and no stick approach and it's getting worse by the day.