• Ibaudia@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The state spends tons more money on making it harder for these people than it does on making them easier. If that reversed, this would not be an issue.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Yup.

      We Americans love our law code to reflect our cruelty, and in the case of homeless people, we pay more for it sadly.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Prisons are designed, outside the scope of entrapment, to house, clothe, and feed a dense resident population. The resources spent on security could easily be diverted to quality of life improvements.

      The organizations that run private prisons off tax subsidies could easily be retooled, in part, to the logistical administration of homeless shelters. They already have on-site detox programs.

      You could even retool the current exploitative work programs into trade training.