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// In NA we don't build the housing we badly need, making it arduous and illegal to build in most places, which has spiked the price of having a home, making it
by xyzelement 4y ago
// In NA we don't build the housing we badly need, making it arduous and illegal to build in most places, which has spiked the price of having a home, making it unaffordable to many
As a capitalist who believes that everything is driven by supply and demand, I agree that enabling more build would drive down prices.
But that's completely irrelevant to the topic here. We're talking about people so severely mentally ill that "forced treatment" is a consideration. These aren't the people who are going to be buying/renting houses in a normal way regardless of availability and cost.
We're talking about people where the options are street life, incarceration, or institutionalization.
- Tiktaalik 4y agoIt's relevant to the conversation in that 1) having a home is a basic necessary building block on the path to some sort of stability and management of mental illness and 2) being homeless is bad for mental health. Politicians seem to be going "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" shrug and leaping to "lets institutionalize everyone" before they've done any basic things that would improve the mental health and wellbeing of people. It's very depressing to see.