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But if you give houses to the homeless, they will no longer be homeless and who am I going to look down on now?
And what else will I complain about when I go downtown? I want to be able to complain about how we need to clean the riffraff of the streets, but it gives me no joy if we're actually getting them off the streets! I need something to fucking whinge about!
Most people who complain about downtowns never go there anyways.
Exactly. I fucking live downtown and I have more to complain about businesses that operate down here than the damn homeless.
The only "thugs" I ever see downtown is the posse of ten cops it takes to shoo one homeless person out of a park.
COP = Criminals On Patrol
Well if the homeless are off the streets, then the turtles and rats can come back out of the sewers. Go rant at Splinter
The bourgeoisie requires a risk of destitution to prevent the proletariat from rising up.
My nipples get erect when I flick them.
If you were to start giving houses to the homeless, at least 50% of those houses would be uninhabitable within a year.
[Citation needed]
https://nypost.com/2020/06/27/san-franciscos-failed-experiment-of-homeless-hotels-is-a-cautionary-tale/
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/la-hotel-converted-to-homeless-housing-suffers-11-5-million-in-damages/
https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/08/30/homeless-squatters-trash-casper-hotel-getting-out-of-hand-mayor-says/
New York Post
Bias Rating: RIGHT-CENTER Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA Press Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Newspaper Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
Washington Free Beacon
Bias Rating: RIGHT Factual Reporting: MIXED Country: USA Press Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Website Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: MEDIUM CREDIBILITY
Cowboy State Daily - Not yet rated.
there is little incentive for left wing rags to report on these topics
Yeah the sources you provided all love to shit on California while conveniently forgetting how great its economy is.
and how is that relevant? can homelessness be a problem and the economy be good at the same time?
I thought we were discussing homelessness and homes to be honest.
So what's your point then, that homeless people are a lost cause and therefore shouldn't be helped? Attempts to house the homeless have resulted in property damage in the past, so we shouldn't bother?
Perhaps you should take a step back and try asking why those projects failed and how to fix the problems instead of concluding that free housing programs could never work.
If you really want to analyze the situation with some nuance then maybe try looking at real sources instead of opinion articles from right-wing "news" sites:
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/howardcenter/caring-for-covid-homeless/stories/homeless-funding-housing-first.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151537/
https://www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/publication/preventive-effect-housing-first-health-care-utilization-and-costs-among-chronically
https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/employment-experiences-of-formerly-homeless-adults-with-serious-m
My point is that a lot of homeless people aren't to be trusted to take care of the space they live in. There would have to be some screening to make sure that these people are capable of not destroying the public good they are being offered for free. I don't think it's really debatable that there are some truly awful homeless people, violent, mean, entitled, and not fit to live in a proper society. It's something people need to face the facts on. So we need to find out how to help the good homeless people before we let the bad ones ruin it for the rest of them.