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I can believe it's true that high housing cost is one of the big drivers of homelessness but once you have a very large, drug addicted and unhealthy population
by zwieback 4y ago
I can believe it's true that high housing cost is one of the big drivers of homelessness but once you have a very large, drug addicted and unhealthy population of homeless you can't just say "build housing for these people". At that point it's already way too late and the law-and-order impulse is very understandable, clean up the mess you created with force and then prevent future messes with generous housing subsidies, especially for youth that are on the verge of becoming homeless.
- tartuffe78 4y agoClean up the mess? How do police clean up a homeless mess? I've never heard of this happening.
- zwieback 4y agoHere it's typically not the police but other city government organizations, literally hauling away containers of garbage and restoring the space. Of course it's a game of whack a mole.
- pessimizer 4y agoIf it's "way too late" to house them, I guess you just have to kill them.
- c22 4y agoThey kill themselves at an alarming rate. I'd say give fixing the root issue a try and see what happens. I imagine the existing homeless population wont be an issue for very long after you stop generating new homeless.
- taneq 4y agoJust sterilize the Petri dish and start again? How Biblical. Of course, the first part of this approach is easy to put in place, but the second part never quite seems to happen in practice.