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Whilst it's not a crime not to have a house, providing housing via free buses is a very poor way to address people who don't have houses, and it has an unfortun
by trollbridge 1y ago
Whilst it's not a crime not to have a house, providing housing via free buses is a very poor way to address people who don't have houses, and it has an unfortunate side effect of pushing people who would otherwise use public transportation away from using it.
- the_snooze 1y agoYou see this in public libraries in major cities. They're open to everyone, so they become shelters of last resort for homeless folks. The large presence of homeless people discourages the public at-large from using the library as a library. That in turn weakens the political will to continue funding libraries.
- trollbridge 1y agoI live in an area where the homeless by and large are well served (lots of halfway houses), so despite being a generally impoverished area in terms of bottom quintile of income or percent of population on food stamps and so forth, public facilities like buses and libraries get to be used for their intended purpose. A library levy recently passed despite being in a deep-red political jurisdiction. If families couldn’t use the library without contending with people using it as a residential facility, it wouldn’t have passed.