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"but who will pay for it?1!?1?!1?"
The government
"But then my taxes are going to do some good! That can't be!!!"
if you give houses to homeless people indiscrimately, many of those houses will be uninhabitable in 2 years. What do you do then? Give them another house to wreck?
Got any sources on that claim, or are you just assuming homeless people are inherently incapable of taking care of themselves?
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/
Leaving these literature reviews on housing first policy here for those who want to form their own opinion instead of getting it from right-wing "news" articles:
https://jech.bmj.com/content/jech/73/5/379.full.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4679128/
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/25133/chapter/1
https://www.coloradocoalition.org/sites/default/files/2017-01/287.pdf