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> Most homeless where I am have severe mental health problems, drug addictions, or both If drug addicts don't have to pay rent, then they do drug addict stuff
by screye 3y ago
> Most homeless where I am have severe mental health problems, drug addictions, or both
If drug addicts don't have to pay rent, then they do drug addict stuff within the premises of their house. It doesn't solve the mental health crisis, but it does solve tents in public areas.
Secondly, it controls for for gateway drug scenarios. Eventually, a large percent chronically homeless & mentally ill people turn into addicts. But, if they have a roof over they shoulders, they aren't pushed into that life as hard as if they were living in a tent.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoA lot of drug addict stuff in their house is not safe for the house. A lot cooking meth RV and tent fires show us that.
- screye 3y agoA house is a house, if you want to burn it down, burn it down. We can't give houses to 100 meth heads who're about to kill themselves, because 1 of them might actually kill themselves via immolation is a hard argument to defend. Yeah, that's 99 alive meth heads off the street.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoIt isn’t their house we are worried about, but the neighbors who live next to them. Are you volunteering?