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This argument irks me. Have you been on the inside of a homeless shelter? The constant bed bug invasions, bunking right next to a paranoid schizophrenic, livin
by potatolicious 14y ago
This argument irks me. Have you been on the inside of a homeless shelter?
The constant bed bug invasions, bunking right next to a paranoid schizophrenic, living in constant fear of rape (yes, even for men)? Treated like a social pariah on a good day, non-existent the next? This isn't even the tip of the iceberg, I assure you.
Life inside the system is not nearly as rosy as you might think.
Often I feel like people should be made to work directly with the homeless before letting them spout off on this particular topic.
- ArbitraryLimits 14y agoNothing in the GP post says anything about the rosiness of life inside the system.
- potatolicious 14y agoYour post suggested that the system wouldn't scale due to fraud - the implication being that people would take advantage of the free housing being provided. What I said was that the conditions in these institutions is so inhumanly bad, that no one in their right mind would voluntarily do it. So what kind of fraud are you thinking of?
- dasil003 14y agoPeople running shelters taking advantage of government funding perhaps? Still seems the money is too little to make much profit through fraud, but there's no shortage of bottom-feeding hustlers and slumlords to try...