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Anti Homeless Architecture (lemmy.world)
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[–] 109 points 2 years ago (3 children)

But if you give houses to the homeless, they will no longer be homeless and who am I going to look down on now?

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    And what else will I complain about when I go downtown? I want to be able to complain about how we need to clean the riffraff of the streets, but it gives me no joy if we're actually getting them off the streets! I need something to fucking whinge about!

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Most people who complain about downtowns never go there anyways.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Exactly. I fucking live downtown and I have more to complain about businesses that operate down here than the damn homeless.

    The only "thugs" I ever see downtown is the posse of ten cops it takes to shoo one homeless person out of a park.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I also live downtown, and my primary issues are homeless stealing things off our front porch, the neighbors that think every night is a good fireworks night, and the 2 homes that previously had 6 scruffy lookin guys hanging out in front of them for months that are now in cinders.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you were to start giving houses to the homeless, at least 50% of those houses would be uninhabitable within a year.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    [Citation needed]

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    New York Post

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    Cowboy State Daily - Not yet rated.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    there is little incentive for left wing rags to report on these topics

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah the sources you provided all love to shit on California while conveniently forgetting how great its economy is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    So what's your point then, that homeless people are a lost cause and therefore shouldn't be helped? Attempts to house the homeless have resulted in property damage in the past, so we shouldn't bother?

    Perhaps you should take a step back and try asking why those projects failed and how to fix the problems instead of concluding that free housing programs could never work.

    If you really want to analyze the situation with some nuance then maybe try looking at real sources instead of opinion articles from right-wing "news" sites:

    https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/howardcenter/caring-for-covid-homeless/stories/homeless-funding-housing-first.html

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3151537/

    https://www.bluecrossmafoundation.org/publication/preventive-effect-housing-first-health-care-utilization-and-costs-among-chronically

    https://nyuscholars.nyu.edu/en/publications/employment-experiences-of-formerly-homeless-adults-with-serious-m

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    My point is that a lot of homeless people aren't to be trusted to take care of the space they live in. There would have to be some screening to make sure that these people are capable of not destroying the public good they are being offered for free. I don't think it's really debatable that there are some truly awful homeless people, violent, mean, entitled, and not fit to live in a proper society. It's something people need to face the facts on. So we need to find out how to help the good homeless people before we let the bad ones ruin it for the rest of them.

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