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A bright spot. > One bright spot was a decline in the number of unhoused veterans. This year that actually fell to a record low, after years of intense investm
by kayo_20211030 2y ago
A bright spot.
> One bright spot was a decline in the number of unhoused veterans. This year that actually fell to a record low, after years of intense investment in subsidized housing and support services.
That decline was due to someone caring about the issue; planning, financing, and executing. But mostly, because someone cared about actually addressing the issue.
- GeoAtreides 2y agoService guarantees housing!
- therealdrag0 2y agoSubsidized housing doesn’t address the issue except for small interest groups. It just puts a bandaid on it.
- kayo_20211030 2y agoWhy is the approach not scalable? In general, everyone has interests, whether part of a small group, a medium group, or a large group. There's a homelessness issue amongst veterans. So, let's try subsidies and support to reduce the severity of the issue. It seems to work. What did we learn, and can we build on those lessons in general? It's better to use a bandaid than just bleed.
- therealdrag0 2y agoIf there are 10 cookies and 12 people who want to buy them the price goes up and some people go without. Giving 2 people enough money to buy the cheapest cookie allows them to buy it, but at the expense of someone else being able to buy it who didn’t have that free money. You can try to give everyone money, but that just puts us back where we started and now the baker can further raise prices to extract that free money from everyone. When there isn’t enough to go around, the solution is to make more cookies.