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> Shelters cost money and they have to be staffed and when they fill up you need to spend money on emergency shelters, which costs more money Yes but shelters
by otikik 3y ago
> Shelters cost money and they have to be staffed and when they fill up you need to spend money on emergency shelters, which costs more money
Yes but shelters can be privately run and then a corporation can make a profit from that, because private companies are more efficient than state-driven things.
That a company makes profits more important than perpetuating the homeless problem, or waking up to frozen cadavers. Think of the poor stakeholders.
- pydry 3y agoThats kind of why homelessness exists in the first place though, and is getting worse. Providing enough housing to eliminate housing would bring rents down. That's bad for profits. Taking away the fear of homelessness gives low end workers more negotiating muscle. This means hence higher wages and less incentive to work as hard. Again, really bad for profits. This is why western governments feign the willingness to do something about it by half heartedly attacking the symptoms (e.g. drugs) rather than fixing the actual cause (lack of homes). It's also why the media fights so hard to misrepresent the causality between drugs and homelessness.
- iudqnolq 3y agoBesides NYC, which is an outlier in all the wrong ways in this sort of space, I've never heard of private shelters. That's not to say people aren't getting rich of nonprofit shelters.
- kwhitefoot 3y ago> because private companies are more efficient than state-driven things. Yeah, right.
- otikik 3y agoShould I had put sarcasm indicators? :)
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