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>I've seen handful of YouTube videos interviewing homeless people that were pushed out due to high prices and none of them seem the drug-addict pee-on-the-starb
by pydry 4y ago
>I've seen handful of YouTube videos interviewing homeless people that were pushed out due to high prices and none of them seem the drug-addict pee-on-the-starbucks-floor type
It takes a good number of years on the street to transition to that stage.
>Hard worker being evicted for rent and resorting to drug use sounds like a nice narrative, but it feels fictional.
Probably because there's an unholy amount of wealth and power pushing the narrative that the correlation flows the other way.
A housing first approach to homelessness would depress property prices. Nobody owning a major media outlet wants that and they can shape what "feels real".
- itake 4y ago> It takes a good number of years on the street to transition to that stage. Do you have a source for this? > A housing first approach to homelessness would depress property prices. No amount of housing will cure drug addictions or mental health problems.
- CRConrad 4y ago> No amount of housing will cure drug addictions or mental health problems. But the main part of problems -- for others, if not the drug addicts themselves -- caused by drug addiction are not direct but indirect: Crime (to get money for drugs) and "general nuisance" behaviour like peeing on the floor at Starbucks. More "liberal" drug policies (like, e.g, Portugal's?) would go a long way towards fixing the former; providing housing for the homeless would go a long way towards fixing the latter. Sure, it's "fixing the symptoms, not the disease" -- but since the "symptoms" seem to be a large (the largest?) part of the problem (it's them the OP article is about, and what we seem to dicussing here), fixing them kind of is fixing "the problem".