• BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one
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    Yeah, so simple!

    Those apartments world devolve into a human trafficking, crime ridden drug overdose havens in no time. Mental health support for them is needed first.

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      You get them in a stable living arrangement first, and then that makes mental health support exponentially easier.

      Housing first policies work everywhere they’re tried.

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      1 month ago

      I never understood people like you. That the moment you help someone, the result will obviously be the worst outcome? So better not help them at all?

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        You don’t understand because your never consider the consequences of your actions.

        Providing shelter for everyone is a basic human need.

        But forcing mentally ill people mixed together with financially downtrodden unhoused people into a Kowloon City type environment without considering their ability to maintain their cleanliness and safety without imposing jack-booted level of policing is another level of stupid I can’t force out of you without an hours long face-to-face lecture where you and I can discuss like two friendly normal people.

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          Providing shelter for everyone is a basic human need.

          I agree. So let’s start with the basic human need. Nobody suggested we stop there and wash our hands of it saying “problem solved.”