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About 1/2 of homelessness is not a money problem, it's a social/behavioural problem. The homeless people in my neighbourhood are all crack addicts. They get up
by jollybean 4y ago
About 1/2 of homelessness is not a money problem, it's a social/behavioural problem.
The homeless people in my neighbourhood are all crack addicts. They get up and urinate/shit 3ft from where they are standing instead of walking 100ft to the park. They are 'feral'.
If you gave them a 'home' it would immediately be a crack den for them and their buds. The bathroom or anything else would literally never get cleaned ever. It'd fall into disrepair quickly. There'd be no hope of them having any kind of job or anything like that.
The other 1/2 are temporary homeless, usually due to some kind of calamity. Housing prices isn't so much the problem a they need to be 'stabilized'. A 20% shift in rental costs will not affect those people very much.
Low housing costs can positively affect a huge swath of people, freeing up income for other things, but it won't change the number of crackheads on the street and probably not the % of people that 'fall out of the system' for a few weeks.
High housing costs are mostly a strain on working people.
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