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> In the United Kingdom, for instance, people who had been living on the streets or in shelters were housed in individual accommodations in a matter of days. S
by Carrok 2y ago
> In the United Kingdom, for instance, people who had been living on the streets or in shelters were housed in individual accommodations in a matter of days.
So it was always possible. We just didn’t care to do so.
- mistrial9 2y agoit was striking to see Hong Kong in the British-law phase.. there used to be social layers including homeless and "boat people" but the British changed that .. under the British law, every single person and every single place to sleep was counted, numbered, licensed and taxed.
- mmooss 2y agoDidn't the British control Hong Kong from the mid-19th century until the 1990s?
- ipaddr 2y agoWhen they refuse to go inside do you jail them? Some cities with big hearts have been through this before.
- Carrok 2y agoEverything won't be perfect immediately, so let's do nothing instead! /s
- lostlogin 2y agoIt’s an interesting phenomenon that seems universal. People point to any failure anywhere in a system and then right it off in its entirety. Is there every a system of any sort that someone doesn’t try to exploit?
- gwbas1c 2y agoDepends on circumstances. IE, if someone's camping in the woods, who cares. But, if someone is camping in a public park, or on someone's doorstep, or in a tunnel, than that's a different story.
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- kelseyfrog 2y agoAnd then we told ourselves it wasn't possible so we could sleep at night.
- gwbas1c 2y agoI get the impression "individual accommodations" were hotel rooms; and the goal was also to subsidize hotels that had no business due to the pandemic. Housing homeless people in hotels is not sustainable. (It's also overkill, as adequate shelter doesn't need to be a motel with a queen bed. It can be a much smaller room and still be humane.)