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Thank you for articulating why the problem is hard to solve. There is very little (financial) incentive to solve it, at all. It’s all cost with little upside. I

Thank you for articulating why the problem is hard to solve. There is very little (financial) incentive to solve it, at all. It’s all cost with little upside. It’s not like new roads or new infrastructure which creates jobs in the short term and prosperity in the long term. At least it’s not currently billed that way. It’s medical bills and social workers and shelters that just prolong the existing problems.

pierat 3y ago
To be fair, it behooves local governments to solve it. However, the moment a community does do something good, like UBI or small apartments, they get flooded with every other community exporting their homeless there. Same goes for states as well. Any state gets inundated, and quality of help goes down. And a national level plan has no traction. Capitalism itself implicates these people are just lazy and should help themselves. So there's no good (or any) national level plan. And the business part of the economy (rich people) just want them to be 'away'. The term "Greyhound therapy" is precisely that - rich people/local govts will buy you a ticket to go somewhere else. In the end, having these people with a home and stable living would ABSOLUTELY help local areas, and reduce massive burdens on services. But again, political will says these failures of the capitalist machine is somehow 100% their fault, and shouldn't be helped.