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The same thing happened here in the UK. A relatively tiny amount of money (a million £/month or so) got >95% of rough sleepers off the streets and into secure accomodation where many have taken the opportunity to deal with their addictions, mental health issues, even education and job prospects. Turns out it's way easier to get off drugs/alcohol and sort your life out when you don't have to spend all your time findin…
At least housing probably works better now than it did in 1931? The Spike http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html#part1 Note that Blair/Orwell is spotted immediately as NRS social grade A, which may explain why Winston Smith couldn't make the to-me-reasonable jump to the free proletariat in 1984 : > "The terrible Tramp Major met us at the door and herded us into the bathroom to be stripped and searched. He was…
The housing market in the UK is pretty screwed at the moment, and has been for a long while.