Something needs to be done. Free government housing would be great. These are not the people to do it and they will not do in an unconcentration-camp fashion.
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President Shitface wants to throw homeless people into concentration camps
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I'm disabled and just applied for Medicaid. There are all sorts of programs for those that need them. But none that pay for the insanely high prices to rent a place in the Seattle area. They might help slightly, but I think it's only for the first month.
Cell phones are essential communication tools that everyone needs.
I agree with this actually, it's far past the time the federal stepped in to address the homeless crisis but this is absolutely the worst administration that could attempt it.
Sadly, NIMBY assholes will love this. It's inhumane, of course, but when was "fuck you, got mine" every concerned with compassion?
I hate how the homeless are treated in this fucking country.
I hate how the homeless are treated in this fucking country.
It's better in SF and Japan.
Japan's are particularly dystopian on the outside I feel like the architect was just making a joke.
It's better in SF and Japan.
Japan's are particularly dystopian on the outside I feel like the architect was just making a joke.
Those don't look too bad, but the SF one might be better with some expectation of privacy. At least those look humane, that previous one looks degrading. Just checking -- that SF one is a candid shot, right? Not like models showing what they think people would look like using it?
Serious question: whatever happened to housing projects? Are they all blocked from being built by NIMBYs or something?
They turned into crime hives that were not maintained so people don't like them anymore.
It's a mix of greed, NIMBYism, racism, classism and market capitalism. The ones that historically have been built were underinvested in or ran poorly, this gave them a bad reputation in the eyes of the public, this causes politicians to pull funding from those projects, which made them worse, which made their reputation worse, etc, etc. America has turned its back on housing projects.
basically just watch the Pruitt-Igoe Myth documentary.
They only cared when they thought it was for poor white people
I've visited animal shelters that are well below the national average in quality of welfare, live release rate stats, etc. where the animals have more space to themselves than this.
To be fair, the government keeps claiming the children can leave their concentration camps too.
We could literally just give homeless homes. There are more vacant homes than homeless people in the US
Is he, though? Every one of his funding proposals has cut federal rental assistance drastically and proposed eliminating the agency that coordinates the federal response to homelessness.
Nickled and dimed for years by congress, then mostly gutted by Bill "the era of big government is over" Clinton with the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998. You can tell by the name how awful it is.
Those programs are not dead, there is still federal money for public housing, but those programs have been intentionally sabotaged and diverted from their original mission for decades, and they're just kinda shit now.
Do you ever stop to think why they are actually called 'concentration camps' and not just flat out 'death camps'?
lol yeah i used to laugh till they started using those camps to house immigration case subjects.
I didn't say they weren't but the people that we're talking about sure don't think the homeless population is largely white. They think it's addicts and the mentally ill and largely people of color. Y'all kill me with these knee jerk reactions.
Okay, account with 63 posts after a year and a half on the site, we'll be sure to give Trump a break
Trump ain't trying to do shit but throw more people behind bars and erase them from view. It's what society loves to do instead of actually addressing the reasons why these people are homeless.
And doesn't cost you a monthly 1200$ for one bunkbed place per person.
Real danger : prison industrial complex sees profit in homelessness.
If homeless shelters were this nice and secure a lot of the people who feel safer on streets would be here. It won't be like this. At all.
If homeless shelters were this nice and secure a lot of the people who feel safer on streets would be here. It won't be like this. At all.
You can also get a cell phone for practically nothing these days. Like $25-50 bucks
How are you jumping to concentration camps?
The homeless crisis in Cali is staggering. Not that I trust this fed govt to do right by it, but drastic measures need to be taken. At face value I see little wrong with this. In implementation is will be a bad faith shit show.
The homeless crisis in Cali is staggering. Not that I trust this fed govt to do right by it, but drastic measures need to be taken. At face value I see little wrong with this. In implementation is will be a bad faith shit show.
There's absolute 0 chance this turns out well. The only silver lining I can think of is if Warren or Bernie inherits this mess they can actually expand it into a functional reintegration program for the homeless.
A lot of "liberal" landowners in Californa are suddenly going to feel a lot more positively about Trump. He's delivering to them the thing they always wanted but never dared to suggest.
A lot of "liberal" landowners in Californa are suddenly going to feel a lot more positively about Trump. He's delivering to them the thing they always wanted but never dared to suggest.
Housing First initiatives are proven to be effective and work, but tend to be politically unpalatable because people love to criminalize and demonize poor people. The puritanical approach that tends to force people with addiction problems to get clean first or seek mental help somehow or get jobs first or whatever generally tends to fail and be more expensive because, hey, these people don't have shelter, which tends to exacerbate the issues, make them hard to track and provide services to, and is generally at odds with proven ways of dealing with the broad set of issues that can lead to homelessness. States and municipalities can try to mitigate the issue, but will inevitably be unable to resolve the issue single-handedly.
Trump has no plan. It's a political maneuver that has no legal basis and will do absolutely nothing on the issue (see also, every single other problem he tries to "fix"). Ben Carson at HUD and his nutjob policies which are basically all anti-housing will probably create more homeless people than anything he's trying to solve (Exhibit A of Carson's incompetence).
The issue requires federal funding & long term commitment and prioritization, along with cooperation with states and local governments, absolutely none of which will happen under this administration. The son of a racist slumlord that's inherited all his wealth and can't run a casino isn't going to solve this problem anymore than he solved North Korea.
It's not a knee jerk reaction, it's just a fact. They don't care if the homeless are white or not, because once someone is homeless they become an 'undesirable' and are thus dehumanized. The Nazis put the homeless in concentration camps regardless of race or sex or orientation or creed. It's definitely a situation exacerbated by racism but it's ultimately a hatred of the poor for being poor.
America is inching towards full on nazi death camps. They're slowly broadening the criteria on who gets taken away.
Build mixed communities, provide social housing, provide health, education and employment services. That's how you solve 90%+ of homelessness.
Government - backed facilities, aka private prisons. Just another scam.
Truth is the homeless issue in LA is getting worse.The democratic leadership that focused on it, completely failed. They threw a bunch of money at it, in the wrong way, and things got worse.
Trump has no cache in the field but it'd be foolish to not, at least, listen to whatever likely garbage plan he has. The City deserves it because Gavin Newsome really shit the bed. Democratic leadership in CA needs to get better, quickly.
Trump has no cache in the field but it'd be foolish to not, at least, listen to whatever likely garbage plan he has. The City deserves it because Gavin Newsome really shit the bed. Democratic leadership in CA needs to get better, quickly.
His plan is to imprison them in federal facilities, likely run by private contractors. No, that's not worth listening to.
