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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Mobile homes cost $250,00 here.
Median housing price is $842,000.
Most are druggies, they are not homeless they got kicked out of their homes for their drug habits......they want free housing just like the free food and health care they already get.
There’s a big difference between bums and hoboes and the working poor. I don’t object to helping those who, through no fault of their own, can’t earn enough to sustain themselves at a reasonable level. Motivation and effort don’t always equal success.
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
There are so many people with stories like yours, people who **really worked** for what they got. I think that is an important thing that we have lost.
Yes and now that idiots a senator
Thanks.
You are right!
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.
Do a search for Cabrini Green.
Combat zone that had to be razed.
5.56mm
Wow. I hope you live someplace nice and not just expensive.
Only new housing going up in neck of the woods is Sec 8.
Deep State really, really doesn’t like competition.
“Only new housing going up in neck of the woods is Sec 8.”
Lather, rinse and repeat.
5.56mm
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.
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