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>"End homelessness in the United States (-$20 billion)" Wow! Someone tell congress. $20 billion is nothing to those folks. The solution was here all along! We

• unethical_ban 5y ago
  If we could just concentrate them in some kind of camp, it would make their administration so much more efficient. But seriously, it creates serious ethical questions for our country. If someone is a public nuisance, has no place to go and no caretakers, no money, and the only alternative is jail, should we or should we not involuntarily commit certain people to mental hospitals or facilities to help them get clean, get counseling, and keep them off the streets? Is it impossible to set up such a system with transparency reports, an adversarial watchdog for rights and patient advocacy, etc.?
• missedthecue 5y ago
  the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has a budget of almost $70 billion per year. Someone should fill them in that the internet figured out how to solve homelessness for a one-time payment only fraction of what they spend year-in year-out.
  • throwoutway 5y ago
    What are we paying them $70B for?!
    • lostmsu 5y ago
      For trying to convince people to enter one of the homeless support programs, and not drop out of it in the middle?
    • MrPatan 5y ago
      A self-perpetuating bureaucracy. Paper pushers who are unfit for any actual productive work. It does combat homelessness in a way, I suppose.