it’s expensive. very. but the taxpayers pay it.

You can remove the strike through, it’s literally slave labor. The US constitution never abolished slavery, just limited it. To prisoners.

I don’t reckon they have any issue calling it slave labour, setting as how it’s strictly allowed by their constitution.

This feels amendable

Whenever you think the government is stupidly wasting money when there’s a cheaper and more humane solution, you can bet your neck it’s to funnel money toward corporations.

They usually jump through those hoops to obfuscate the trail and pretend there’s some economic complexity. There ain’t, it’s just laundering a corporate subsidy.

No, Flower.

Put the housing where they are. Fuck NIMBYs. It does not matter if a couple people take advantage, as long as the program overwhelmingly assists people in need.

they already roam my neighborhood, why not house them? why not get them help? the ones that the temp housing doesnt work for? those ones need more help. they come to my work. a lot. sure some homeless cause problems, but so do some homed. they are people the same as you are. would you want a warm bed if you were homeless? you wouldnt be homeless right? shit happens sometimes. maybe they were homeless first and alcoholics and drug abusers second. addiction changes people and sometimes they dont change back

If they are housed then they are off the streets and not in your face.

The ugly truth is that many (most?) are addicted to drugs or alcohol and/or suffer mental illnesses that often include antisocial behaviors. You want those types of people roaming your neighborhood? If you say you’re fine with that, you’re either lying or have never spent time around the homeless.

Yes, social welfare is the next thing you guys have to fix. And no, that’s not communism.

Drag has lived in a homeless shelter. Drag wants the homeless to be housed and would be happy to have them in drag’s neighbourhood.

Disagree: we talk about it all the time. NIMBYs want them housed where they don’t have to look at them

The people who don’t want the free house get the chance to refuse it, and the next person who didn’t have one gets offered it. Complete non-issue.

Housing first works. Finland elimated homeless this way.

You can hem and has all you like with your evil malthusian way of thinking because you think all of them are addicts and all addicts deserve to die, but the fact is getting them in housing before rehab, before medical treatment, before anything else WORKS.

Pretty sure those are prison a lot of the time.