Posted on 04/12/2024 7:38:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this month in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which focuses on whether a local government can make it a crime to live outside when adequate shelter is not available.
This case has resulted in an inaccurate and harmful framing of homelessness by suggesting that there are only two potential outcomes: Either arrest those who are unhoused or homelessness will become an inevitable and permanent fixture of the urban landscape.
But there is a third path: providing subsidized housing with services to people experiencing homelessness.
Too often, policymakers ignore the obvious solution to homelessness — housing — in favor of immediate (and generally ineffective) responses, such as criminalization. Forced displacements and criminalization move people from one place to another, increasing their trauma and exacerbating the barriers they face to housing, while doing nothing to solve the underlying problem.
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Yeah...those zonked out zombies living in tents surrounded by piles of trash just wish they could afford a house. /s
That’s when they confiscate your home, knock off a zero, then resell it to their friends.
Deportation is the only positive solution...
heavy-handed market distortions introduced by irresponsible government (ie 0 or near 0% interest rates for years on end, willful devaluation of currency, open borders, etc etc etc) make “affordable housing” impossible.
this
It never means raising interest rates so that home prices quit being artificially inflated. It never means people living on a budget and saving for a house (or at least save up a meaningful down payment). It never means people quit making babies out of wedlock and raising "families" in single-parent households unable to afford rent or mortgage payments.
I keep hearing this term affordable housing. What does that even mean??
After decades of decrypting leftist speak... my translator is coming up with... = government subsidized/taxpayer funded.
Housing projects
They’ve so well in the past. /s
The government has been trying to make health care affordable for decades now. How is that working out?
The government has been trying to make college affordable for decades now. How is that working out?
You best thing the government can do for the homeless is to stop ruining the economy with their graft and interference. On the corrupt course the government is on now, more and more people on the margins now will go under and become homeless.
You get more of what you subsidize, and less of what you tax.
So ...
The democrats want more poverty and less prosperity.
Affordable housing will end homelessness! It is called Institutions for the Mentally Ill. They should be affordable to the taxpayers and those homeless who are drug addicted, mentally ill get to live there. Homelessness is ended, one aspect of crime is then reduced, cities become more livable for society.
Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness, not criminalization
BS
We are supporting lifestyle choices with EBT cards and a bunch of free stuff.
Besides, if they wanted free housing it’s available right now.
But, “They have too many rules” is why they won’t take the free housing and transition from jobless to a starting job....
.......as someone who has developed, built, rehabbed several thousand living units (apts, condos, duplex’s, single family homes), I can tell you that the elephant in the room on this subject is government and people like the authors of this article are nothing less than fraudsters by arguing “affordable housing”. It doesn’t exist and will never exist because government, in all it’s forms and activities, is responsible for 50 % of costs.
The ONLY “affordable” housing, in my opinion would be a concrete floor metal building divided into cubicles with a common bathroom and kitchen/dining.
Even for that concept to succeed, each group of such buildings would require/demand two, big strong, 6’, 4”, 225lb fearless guys walking around 24/7 to maintain order and keep the inhabitants from trashing the building, peeing on the floors, crapping on the floors and raping each other to say nothing of illegal drug use.
Until fraudsters like the authors of this article finally decide to have a serious/honest discussion of the problem nothing conclusive is going to happen.
“Housing projects
They’ve so well in the past. /s”
Guaranteed to: 1) tank private property values, 2) radically increase crime which radically increases chaos in the area... requiring heightened police patrols even while police are being “defunded”.
It’s a twofer for the Marxists. And there are other benefits that result from those two things. San Francisco is an excellent example. Leftist policies resulting in less money going into city coffers from taxpayers resulting in increased homelessness, poop hazards, food and retail “deserts”, general FUBAR scenarios. All to benefit the ‘greater good’ of the end result agenda.... ie Communism. And as most of us (perhaps not all) know by now... that ‘greater good’ by the commies is also a big fat lie.
They need to leave, and reenter as migrants. Then they will be given 5 star accommodations and they still don’t have to work.
95% plus of the homeless population are drug addicts that choose to live on the streets with no rules or boundaries. They can NOT be saved, I say we distribute all the Fentanyl Seized and GIVE IT TO THEM, Give them their last Hoorah. After the smoke clears the less than 5% left might be able to be saved.
“I keep hearing this term affordable housing. What does that even mean??”
In my town we have an ‘affordable housing’ project that works like this:
The city had some land, turned some of it into a park then made about 30 studio, 1 & 2 bedroom homes — that’s the simple part.
Now If I want to purchase one the city looks at my income, If I earn too much a 2 bedroom (attached) home is $750,000, however if I ‘tick’ all the correct boxes (dependents & income) I can have the same home for $600,000.
The above is true and currently there are only 6 units left.
Of course the entire development sits on land that used to have a 125 home trailer park with truly affordable homes upon it. The owner of the park sold it to a developer and the city approved of the developer evicting 125 families so he could build a 90 unit townhome complex. The developer went bankrupt during the 2008 downturn so the city got the property...and now we have 30 new units.
Affordable...
The junkies dopers drunks and slackers get a free ride and the money handlers umm allocate where the money goes.
Think of it as a climate control deal.
Stand by for later report the audit can’t find where all the money went.
Biden just pulled that one off on the Ukraine scam.
They don’t care about affordable housing, just the next hit of drugs. In a house, under a bridge or dying in the freezing cold means nothing to these people unless they are fixed for their next hit.
I have a cousin who has been to rehab at families insistence time and again but she is not ready to get off the stuff and its a waste of time and money. She can’t be around civilized people because she will steal everything but a hot stove and doesn’t care who she’s stealing from: family, friends, public doesn’t matter. She lives in a tent and bums from people outside Walmart. My son is a police officer and has arrested her several times for drugs and warrants. She had a loving family and at one point they gave her an apartment to live in which she promptly trashed and started prostituting herself and selling drugs out of until they finally kicked her out.
Build prisons not houses and seal the border if you want this insanity to stop.
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