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Cities are getting worse year on year. I'd still be living downtown with kids if a homeless camp hadn't sprung up in a park near by. Suburbia by contrast is far
by thr-nrg 3y ago
Cities are getting worse year on year. I'd still be living downtown with kids if a homeless camp hadn't sprung up in a park near by. Suburbia by contrast is far enough from public transport that the homeless can't get there.
- quags 3y agoAs I read this I wondered based on Texas and Florida bussing immigrants out of state - will cities just start bussing their homeless out to the suburbs.
- gkuan 3y agoYour comment reminds me of the Guardian’s piece on cities busing homeless from a while ago [1]. It was kind of like Defcon. [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...
- i_am_jl 3y agoUnlikely. Those solutions are generally undertaken at the state level. There's no way to piss off voters quite like moving homeless people out of a city into their suburbs, and if those suburbs are in your state, those people can vote against you. Maybe this works somewhere like NY/NJ where NYC has interstate suburbs... But more practically, if you give a homeless guy in Manhattan $200 and a bus ticket to NJ, that dude is gonna come back. The distance is sort of necessary for the desired outcome.
- culopatin 3y agoI think immigrants get more attention than the local homeless population. The new shiny thing vs the “we’ll get to it yeah, just one more day” problem
- piloto_ciego 3y agoMaybe this is more of a you problem? Help to fix homelessness and you’ll be able to live wherever you want without being grossed out by the poor.