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Brutal article. They're trying to conduct a violent purge/exile of homeless while dressing it up as caring about them. Give them houses wtf
See https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-10-07/homeless...
L.A. is a place that respects the value of a creative solution. If one cannot force the homeless to leave, how does one positively incentivize people to stop living in the street?
Does one really need to be incentivized to stop living on the street? I would think the incentives are obvious. The problem is the means.
Boise: 2,000 homeless in population of 227,000 = 1:113
LA: 36,000 homeless in population of 4,000,000 = 1:111
Given the difference in annual weather, it's not clear that Boise policy is effective in reducing homelessness.
The broader issue is why a federal court is interfering with municipal policies.
How about finding ways to rehab these people instead of finding creatively hide them away at the fringes of cities and towns.
L.A. is a place that respects the value of a creative solution. If one cannot force the homeless to leave, how does one positively incentivize people to stop living in the street?
Maybe.... give them a place to stay... OFF the street? Of course all urban centers are so starved of entry level housing that anything good enough to minimally get a homeless person off the street (bathroom, place to sleep, maybe kitchenette) would also be swamped by everyone from the poor and working, college students, immigrants, etc. Suppressing this housing is all done in the name of maintaining and increasing ho…
I doubt it; one of the reasons that homelessness is a difficult problem is that some homeless people are very unpleasant to live with, which means other homeless people prefer to remain on the street rather than share housing with them.
Brutal article. They're trying to conduct a violent purge/exile of homeless while dressing it up as caring about them. Give them houses wtf
One thing that I have never understood about this discussion is why it always seems to avoid the following question: What about people who want to be homeless? Why have we built a society in which anybody who doesn't accept the lifestyle of sleeping in a static, hardened structure, and working to pay rent or a mortgage so as to have the right to do so, is diagnosed with some kind of illness? Isn't it quite clear that…