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This is just not true. Everyone is talking about the homeless problem all the time. NOBODY is happy about the homeless situation in our major cities. I don't k

This is just not true. Everyone is talking about the homeless problem all the time. NOBODY is happy about the homeless situation in our major cities. I don't know a single city, liberal, moderate, or conservative, that has solved it. I am just a single citizen, I pay out the ass for taxes, and nothing is being done to help these people. At this point is appears there is no political will to do anything. Instead everyone walks in circles while funneling the money into porkbarrel spending, the police force, and roads.

more_corn 5y ago
Housing First seemed to be working in Utah. They achieved 90% reduction in chronic homelessness. A remarkably simple and cost-effective answer. Essentially it states “get people housing and then it’s way easier to treat the things making them homeless” plop someone in a home and then it’s easier to get medication to them and they stop showing up in the ER 4x a month. Get people housing and then you know where they are to check in on how dependency treatment is going. Psychiatric condition? Way easier to treat if they have a roof, heat, an address to send medication. It is actually cheaper than just doing nothing and allowing people to remain homeless. But then they stopped funding it in 2015. “Man this remarkable looking approach stopped working!” “Oh? When?” “Right after we stopped funding it!” “Huh, weird.”
- Eric_WVGG 5y ago
  I was about to chime in with the same comment. In actuality, they landed around 71%, but yeah, I'd still call that a huge success. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/05/11/utah-was-once-lauded/ https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/05/11/utah-was-onc... The arguments for housing-first homeless solutions align neatly with Universal Basic Income.
  - 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
    The other 29% need to be sent to a re-education camp until they want to be part of society again. I'm not kidding. Vagrancy is a plague on civil society.
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downrightmike 5y ago
Cities are just police departments that happen to provide some other services

more_corn 5y ago

Housing First seemed to be working in Utah. They achieved 90% reduction in chronic homelessness. A remarkably simple and cost-effective answer. Essentially it states “get people housing and then it’s way easier to treat the things making them homeless” plop someone in a home and then it’s easier to get medication to them and they stop showing up in the ER 4x a month. Get people housing and then you know where they are to check in on how dependency treatment is going. Psychiatric condition? Way easier to treat if they have a roof, heat, an address to send medication. It is actually cheaper than just doing nothing and allowing people to remain homeless. But then they stopped funding it in 2015. “Man this remarkable looking approach stopped working!” “Oh? When?” “Right after we stopped funding it!” “Huh, weird.”

Eric_WVGG 5y ago
I was about to chime in with the same comment. In actuality, they landed around 71%, but yeah, I'd still call that a huge success. https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/05/11/utah-was-once-lauded/ https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2020/05/11/utah-was-onc... The arguments for housing-first homeless solutions align neatly with Universal Basic Income.
- 0x0nyandesu 5y ago
  The other 29% need to be sent to a re-education camp until they want to be part of society again. I'm not kidding. Vagrancy is a plague on civil society.

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downrightmike 5y ago

Cities are just police departments that happen to provide some other services