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Homelessness is a complex subject. No one in good faith thinks a homeless addict needs to just bootstrap harder. At the same time, barring a major felony, and
by humanrebar 4y ago
Homelessness is a complex subject. No one in good faith thinks a homeless addict needs to just bootstrap harder.
At the same time, barring a major felony, and sometimes not even then, nobody is exactly forcing them into a successful engagement with a recovery program either. If someone is unable to make a rational decision on the subject, who's fault is it if they continue to be untreated?
- mperham 4y agoYou’re showing your own biases by assuming that all homeless people are addicts. There are tons of people living in their cars and barely scraping by. It’s the price of housing, we need more housing units full stop.
- humanrebar 4y agoI didn't say all homeless people were addicts. I was illustrating my first sentence -- homelessness is a complex subject. I agree we need more housing. I also think we'll have "homelessness problems" even if we built enough housing to go around. There are a lot of intersecting problems.