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I know plenty of homeless people in San Francisco without drug issues. The reason they are on the street or living in their cars or crashing on a friends couch
by hezralig 4y ago
I know plenty of homeless people in San Francisco without drug issues. The reason they are on the street or living in their cars or crashing on a friends couch in between either other spot? They cannot afford rent. Both friends I am currently in contact with are also CURRENTLY employed.
- chimineycricket 4y agocome on this is anecdotal
- clint 4y agoEverything in this thread is anecdotal
- closeparen 4y agoI know lots of normally functioning adults who cannot afford rent in San Francisco. Many of them have bigger, nicer houses than my apartment - elsewhere than San Francisco.
- hezralig 4y agoThat's dope. Are any of them employed in SF, grew up in SF, and have no social supports outside of SF?
- closeparen 4y agoI can think of more people who switched languages and continents than who still live in the city where they grew up. Establishing yourself in a new place where you don't know anyone isn't easy or painless, but compared to literally sleeping under a bridge? Come on.
- caminante 4y ago> Both friends I am currently in contact with are also CURRENTLY employed. Genuinely curious, what is the estimated income of your two homeless friends? And do they have any limitations on their salary potential?
- yucky 4y agoYou know people who can't afford rent in one of the most expensive cities in the world to rent in? Shocked - shocked I tell you! If only there were a solution...
- munk-a 4y agoAs a Vancouverite I'd appreciate it if you didn't compare your extremely affordable city to my own. /s
- nostromo 4y agoIf you're crashing on a friend's couch, you're not homeless. Everyone cohabitates with family and friends at some point in life. It's very different than sleeping on the street.
- hezralig 4y agoWhen you live on the street and sometimes can crash on a friend's couch, you are homeless.
- conductr 4y agoyet this part of their statement is still true, let's focus on solving 70% of the problem and then we can debate the rest > This has little to do with the availability of housing, or the cost of housing. Some people will simply refuse to live in the housing that is provided. Many are so mentally ill and addicted to drugs that no amount of money we give them, either directly or indirectly, will get them off the streets.
- hezralig 4y agoI agree. Most people who are homeless at any given time are not homeless due to chronic drug abuse.
- conductr 4y agoPeople that choose to make a lifestyle of it should be dealt with forcefully. And no I'm not saying to beat them up although I'm not against rounding them up and dropping them in the wilderness just like a racoon. It's not a permanent solution but deters the lifestyle and is much cheaper than rehabilitating people that don't want it.