> Americans don't feel sufficient shame for living in a city with a large number of homeless people. I don't think this is true. No one likes living around mas

> Americans don't feel sufficient shame for living in a city with a large number of homeless people. I don't think this is true. No one likes living around massive homeless encampments, garbage, filth, and unpredictable people with severe mental issues. This is why the homeless services budget goes up significantly every single year in most coastal American cities. People want this problem to be solved, they just have a different idea on how to solve it. The difference between the US and Singapore is that "authoritarian" policies, like forcing people to live somewhere they might not want to, would never fly. One side of the spectrum would resent the handouts to others while they themselves continue to struggle with no help, and the other would complain the housing comes with too many rules and is too restrictive.