• FundMECFSResearchOPM
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    7 days ago

    We have so much uncounted homelessness. The government throws homeless people in warehouses that are super dangerous and where people literally starve, but then they can hide the problem from the population and make the statistics look good.

    • Dasus@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I mean the numbers seem relatively low but they can lie quite a lot.

      Sounds nasty. I want to look into that a little.

      Here it’s just the housing first so even drunks and junkies have apartments. Like if you really have a huge drug issue and end up not even applying for benefits or drinking all your rent money and some of that is paid directly to your landlord from the benefits people so it’s kinda hard to get so behind in rent that you actually get evicted.

      But this causes problem imo because there’s just tons of bureaucratic “traps” sort of keeping people in these situations.