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I think the lawlessness in San Francisco is more the poster child for what happens when we treat people as disposable.
by SyzygistSix 5y ago
I think the lawlessness in San Francisco is more the poster child for what happens when we treat people as disposable.
- treeman79 5y agohttps://www.hoover.org/research/only-san-francisco-61000-tents-and-350000-public-toilets https://www.hoover.org/research/only-san-francisco-61000-ten... SF is spending 100k per homeless person. It’s not going well. What’s the correct amount of caring?
- SyzygistSix 5y agoIt's not about the amount, which I agree is both ridiculous and yet still ineffective once someone becomes homeless and addicted. It's about when intervention is effective, which is most certainly before they become homeless. How is every other Western country managing to not have nearly the amount of homeless people and drug addicts as we do? Maybe start by doing what they do?
- areyousure 5y agoIn case anyone is curious, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homeless_... appears to list 15 OECD countries as having a higher homeless rate than the United States: New Zealand, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia, France, Luxembourg, Greece, Sweden, Mexico, Latvia, Israel, Austria, Czechia, Netherlands, Slovenia.