• Kalysta@lemm.ee
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    Breaking up homeless encampments doesn’t fix the fact that these people have nowhere to live! What a cruel policy.

    Why not emminent domain overpriced apartment buildings owned by the Saudis, Chinese, and Russians, and give the apartments away the homeless. Problem solved.

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      3 months ago

      Yeah, so simple!

      Those apartments world devolve into a human trafficking, crime ridden drug overdose havens in no time. Mental health support for them is needed first.

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        3 months ago

        You get them in a stable living arrangement first, and then that makes mental health support exponentially easier.

        Housing first policies work everywhere they’re tried.

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        I never understood people like you. That the moment you help someone, the result will obviously be the worst outcome? So better not help them at all?

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          3 months ago

          You don’t understand because your never consider the consequences of your actions.

          Providing shelter for everyone is a basic human need.

          But forcing mentally ill people mixed together with financially downtrodden unhoused people into a Kowloon City type environment without considering their ability to maintain their cleanliness and safety without imposing jack-booted level of policing is another level of stupid I can’t force out of you without an hours long face-to-face lecture where you and I can discuss like two friendly normal people.

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            Providing shelter for everyone is a basic human need.

            I agree. So let’s start with the basic human need. Nobody suggested we stop there and wash our hands of it saying “problem solved.”

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            “force your opinion out of you over an hours long conversation like a normal friendly person”

            time for some self reflection there, baroque

            i happen to agree with you too, as would i think anyone who has spent time in an american projects or shelter system, but youve so thoroughly poisoned the argument i cant take it up here.