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Re: Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter

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No just build more housing in general The studies have been done bro, there is only one solution and I just described it Also we don't actually live in a capitalist system, health care and housing are already socialist in many many ways. It would be easy to pass govt regulations making it easier to build housing. Capitalism is not the problem because we don't actually live in a fully capitalist society dude.

I'm not sure which studies have you so convinced that one overly simplistic thing can "solve" homelessness. This paper from 1991 does a great job of laying out the dozens of different factors which make homelessness such a complex and challenging issue to address: https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=... A lack of affordable housing compounds the challenge, but to say housing is the only soluti…

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/951456001

You're overcomplicating the issue to make it seem more complex than it is. It's dead simple: when people don't have homes, build more homes -- then they'll have homes.

If you're trying to solve mental illness or something that's another issue entirely, plenty of homeless AND housed people are mentally ill; attempts to claim that homelessness and tangentially related factors like mental illness are somehow "inexplicably intertwined" are just rationalizations to justify why you're not actually working to solve the problem.

Re: Show HN: Occupod – a solid mobile sleeping shelter

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Skin burns, lung damage?

The whoosh is that simply using the term "chemical" as something that is bad is irresponsible.

I get it. But that's an old pedantic saw. I understood from context perfectly well it was about the particular chemicals used to treat cheap wood pallets.
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