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Free housing where? In one of the most expensive cities in the world? If you provide free housing, it has to be accompanied by a compulsion to accept it, even i
by EPWN3D 2y ago
Free housing where? In one of the most expensive cities in the world? If you provide free housing, it has to be accompanied by a compulsion to accept it, even if it's not in the place you prefer to live. And lots of homeless prefer SF because they have easy access to drugs, can panhandle, etc.
But if there's free housing on offer, it has to be accompanied by a stipulation that setting up a tent and being a societal menace in a major metro does not entitle you to free housing in that metro.
- davkan 2y agoThere is no solution in which society does not carry these people besides offing them. They are our burden. Anywhere you would hold homeless people by force will be more expensive to staff and maintain in the long run than just giving them a shoebox with a bed and a hotplate.
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI don’t think it’s ever going to be feasible for SF to provide free housing to anyone who just shows up. It simply wont work no matter how much of the city budget they throw at it.
- davkan 2y agoI agree, SF’s homeless are from all over the country, they can’t afford to house everyone. I would imagine the tide could be stemmed to some small degree if colder states had free housing with heat.