Some people dont have homes. Give them homes. Everyone has homes🤯🤯🤯
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2024
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Society always pay for the homeless, regardless if the homeless are given homes or not.
Don't give them homes .... society gets to pay for more policing, more security, more judicial, more emergency health, more social problems.
Give them homes ... No it doesn't create a Utopia but with the money saved in less policing, less security, less judicial, less emergency health, the savings are used to pay for a home.
So go ahead be a right winger or a left winger, no matter how you cut it, we all pay for the homeless no matter what we do. It's just that one solution is compassionate and one is not.
If you want to argue the Christian way, than ...
‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’”
- Matthew 25:40
I'm a leftist because I'm a fiscal conservative. It doesn't take compassion (which is just as well, because frankly I'm not all that compassionate); it just takes not being so vindictive that you want to pay extra to persecute the poor to keep them down on purpose.
You can apply the same view to e.g. healthcare. It is a lot cheaper to pay for preventative healthcare for everyone than to deal with health issues once they get to the point where they become unbearable.
That reminds me of giving everyone a car instead of funding public transport.
This will never work. When they just give houses to people who are homeless how will we know who’s homeless and who isn’t.
/s this is great. I wish the US Would follow suit.
First developed in the US, the initiative known as Housing First [...]
It is only applied in a very limited amount of states or even cities in the US. Meanwhile there is many more that just criminalize homleseness, make public spaces more difficult for homeless people to exist in and all the while make it easier for landlords to kick tenants out or raise rent into absurdity and then kick them out.
My concern would be that individuals would abuse the provided homes and either trash them completely, or use them as a trap house. There’d have to be some kind of rules.
Edit: see below, people who have never spent time around homeless communities
it's not as simple as just giving them all houses... there would have to be social workers involved... transition type helpers and different types of housing...
but, believe it or not, most homeless people aren't hard drug users
believe it or not, most homeless people aren't hard drug users
But a lot of chronic hard drug users are homeless.
All I’m saying is I agree it’s not simple, and there would need to be a system in place to mitigate those complexities. These are the types of concerns that voters on these projects would have.
Do you think it is easier to adress drug abuse, when people on top of it lack a home and the basic safety and comfort it provides?