Sometimes you need a carrot and sometimes you need a stick. We’re a little past the carrot stage.
If they don’t care about themselves they won’t care about you.
Some of the homeless are Americans who have had a hard financial time and could be helped by “affordable” housing. They are far outnumbered by the insane who need to be institutionalized, the drug addicts who would just cut the pipes out of their walls to get money from the copper for one more high, and the illegals who shouldn’t be here at all.
It means “Your tax dollars at work.” and “We are coming for your neighborhood next.” When every policy and new regulation means added costs to construction it is the height of hypocrisy to mouth the words “affordable housing.” Demanding, planning, designing, contracting, building, and allocating housing all requires lots and lots of money changing hands. If the idea was truly to get people into housing you would have far less people involved in the process.
We have an example of affordable (for the tenant) housing.
It is called prison. The problems in prisons would continue in most other ideas of affordable housing. At least prisons mostly contain them to the tenants.
Note “most other ideas” does not equal “all ideas”.
OK...I can agree with that.Perhaps the first “affordable housing” complex can be built on Martha’s Vineyard. I’d say a complex of about 10,000 units would be perfect.
Homelessness is not the problem, it’s just a symptom of drugged out bums.
Drugs is the problem.
The are few if any “homeless ‘ in Singapore.
no
there’s plenty of housing in much of America
that’s not the problem
the problem for most of the homeless is
1. narcotics addiction
2. alcohol addiction
3. both of above
4. laziness
5. welfare handouts addiction (especially where they can get, in effect, three or four times the food they need like in Californication)
5. attitudinal poisoning (like, “I’m entitled, You Give Me!”)
7. trained by corrupt leftwing politicans to be addicted to free handouts, welfare, loan forgiveness and all the rest... in exchange for votes
6. all of above
Also according to The Hill, good health is the remedy for illness.
There have been many attempts at finding the bottom in the well of stupid over at The Hill (since John Solomon was given the boot), but no one has been able to find a cable long enough to get to the bottom.
Do a search for Cabrini Green.
Same BS trope they peddaled in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90,s etc.
I like the current solution.
The lavish welfare blue states are vacuuming up the homeless nationwide.
They’re doing the rest of us a tremendous service.
Close the border. Deport the illegals. Put the mentally ill in mental hospitals. Put the bums and drug addicts in jail. Problem solved. It worked for many years until we closed the mental hospitals and the leftists released people from jail.