▲ 200 ▼ US is on track to set record for homeless people with over 650K living on the streets (www.independent.co.uk) submitted 2 years ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago (4 children) Just remember: there are over 23 vacant homes per homeless person in the land of the free. 🤢 permalink fedilink source hideshow 8 child comments replies: [–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) And the best solution to homelessness is to house people. Does it solve all homelessness? No it doesn't. Addiction services and mental health services will go even further to solve homelessness. You will never get 100% of the people off the streets, but there are a few very simple solutions that can drastically reduce the numbers. Of course, all of that requires raising taxes, so it almost never happens. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago Well, that depends who you ask. There are a lot of corporations who count on the penal system’s forced labor. Could you imagine what reduced incarceration of addicts and the unhoused would do to their margins? permalink fedilink source parent [–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago What’s nuts is it doesn’t require raising taxes, our government is absurdly bloated and lots of people have strong incentives to keep it that way permalink fedilink source parent [–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago Land of the free ^(^^to^ ^make^ ^sure^ ^other^ ^people^ ^can't^ ^have^ ^homes^ ^because^ ^human^ ^society^ ^is^ ^purposefully^ ^about^ ^exploitation^^)^. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago Those aren't houses, they're investments! /s permalink fedilink source parent [–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago More like the land where you're free to fuck off and die in a gutter. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (2 children) And the best solution to homelessness is to house people. Does it solve all homelessness? No it doesn't. Addiction services and mental health services will go even further to solve homelessness. You will never get 100% of the people off the streets, but there are a few very simple solutions that can drastically reduce the numbers. Of course, all of that requires raising taxes, so it almost never happens. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago Well, that depends who you ask. There are a lot of corporations who count on the penal system’s forced labor. Could you imagine what reduced incarceration of addicts and the unhoused would do to their margins? permalink fedilink source parent [–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago What’s nuts is it doesn’t require raising taxes, our government is absurdly bloated and lots of people have strong incentives to keep it that way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago Well, that depends who you ask. There are a lot of corporations who count on the penal system’s forced labor. Could you imagine what reduced incarceration of addicts and the unhoused would do to their margins? permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago What’s nuts is it doesn’t require raising taxes, our government is absurdly bloated and lots of people have strong incentives to keep it that way permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 years ago Land of the free ^(^^to^ ^make^ ^sure^ ^other^ ^people^ ^can't^ ^have^ ^homes^ ^because^ ^human^ ^society^ ^is^ ^purposefully^ ^about^ ^exploitation^^)^. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 years ago Those aren't houses, they're investments! /s permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago More like the land where you're free to fuck off and die in a gutter. permalink fedilink source parent