He’s right, we have enough houses. Over 20 per homless person
Here in California, they have decided that the best strategy is to tear down their camps and throw them in jail. Cuz that’ll solve everything.
That way the state can make money off of them via slave labor.
Nah the state doesnt make money. The state pays the prison with taxes and then the privately owned prison loans out its slaves for to get even more profit
California actually has no private prisons, for what that’s worth. But that doesn’t mean state and federal prisons can’t be for-profit.
State and federal prisons contract their inmates out to businesses through “work reform” programs to make things like cheap dorm furniture or food products. The business pays the prison for a contract, and the prisoners work for free or for a small credit they can spend at the prison comissary. Or sometimes it reduces the debt they get stuck with when they leave prison, because the government bills people for the cost of their own incarceration.
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Here in Montreal they just tear down their camps and hope they will go away.
Canada’s weather is a natural deterrent.
And by deterrent I mean they dead.
Although I support the idea, simplifying the problem to one of only supply and demand doesn’t address the core issues of mental health, substance abuse and physical disabilities that might have in great part contributed to the individual being unhoused. Along with affordable housing and free temporary housing we need to also provide free resources to help individuals get back on their feet (as a matter of speaking).
Please tell me how one would stay safe, sane, and sober without a roof over one’s head, a door one can lock, and food in one’s stomach?
Shelter is the next need up from food in the pyramid of needs. Solve that first for a strong foundation for a life.
You missed my point. To address the issue of homelessness, you need to attack all of the underlying issues at once, not just lack of shelter.
But housing does solve someone being homeless…
Not if they’re immediately kicked out again because of damage to the home or because they’re intolerable and/or dangerous to the neighbours. And that’s not even accounting for the people who have more invisible mental health issues that still prevent them from holding a job and paying their rent/mortgage without permanent government assistance. If you want to fix homelessness you need to address mental health as well as housing. Neither is optional, it needs to be both.
Can confirm. Talked to a few homeless and I think most are mentally unfit to seek help, apply for government programmes, work or even care for a home they would get for free. Those people belong in some asylum where they get therapy.
We need to build up. Nimbys need to stfu.
