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Might as well use the money to support your local shelter, less overhead and it actually does something good for a change.
by barbazoo 2y ago
Might as well use the money to support your local shelter, less overhead and it actually does something good for a change.
- fsckboy 2y agoi understand your true and noble motivation, but the law of incentives is an iron law, and it tells us your subsidy will incentivize the burgeoning industry that demands more shelters
- barbazoo 2y agoThey often enable people their way to recovery. Individuals are better off because of them. Do you have a source for your claim that more shelters cause more use of shelters which is what I think you’re saying right?
- procaryote 2y agoI worry about the things an investor-run shelter would try to make their investment profitable
- barry-cotter 2y agoGiving money to your local homeless shelter encourages homeless people to move near you (see San Francisco). Making a lot of risky investments in businesses encourages people to start new businesses. One of these has positive second order effects on economic growth.
- gammarator 2y agoThe vast majority of homeless people in the Bay Area are from the Bay Area. https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-23/homelessness-bay-area https://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2017-10-2... There is lots of homelessness because housing is expensive. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-about https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/everything-you-think-you-know-...
- investa 2y agoNeither helps homelessness. Building more affordable homes is the solution. Which also has 2nd order effects.
- barbazoo 2y agoPeople that need help are going to where the help is, shocking /s