Surprising; I thought they had an effective for-profit prison-industrial complex
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Don’t worry the states are working on that as fast as they can. They’re making it a civil fine to “camp” in the wrong spot. Then you also get relocated to a shelter that has a limit on what you can bring in, including a ban on animals. If you resist at any point you end up in prison. So you have to just take losing your only companion and half of your belongings in stride. Also though, if you go to prison you lose all of your stuff. So they release you thirty days later (in the blue states) and your penniless, your dog has hopefully been adopted by someone else, and you have no clothes to survive extreme weather or any other property you need to function. So you can either die in the middle of the night to cold weather or take up that drug dealer on his offer of employment. Which ends up with a larger prison sentence down the road.
The fact that people don’t see this cycle is infuriating to me. All they see is a sidewalk that doesn’t have tents anymore and they cheer. They don’t care that they’ve permanently destroyed the lives of everyone who lived there.
There’s plenty of shelter space but you can’t do drugs there so people don’t go. But hey I guess you can use as much as you want in prison!
No there isn’t actually. The recent SCOTUS case was literally repealing a past ruling that you couldn’t do what I described above, until there was enough shelter space for all the homeless in your city/county/state.
So that’s why enforcement suddenly got juiced. They no longer need a bed available to fuck your shit up.
You have no idea what you’re talking about.
I’ve been homeless, and staying the fuck away from the shelters is how you stay safe.
I spent one night in one once, and promptly went back to looking for hidden little spots where no one would be able to see me.
Unless you are the crustiest of old homebums, shelters are where your shit gets stolen and you get stabbed if you make a fuss. Or raped.
$650k and still homeless. Housing market is out of control.
Housing should he a necessity of life. Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to own homes. Limit individuals to 5.
If corporations want to own “homes” then they can build an apartment complex.
Which they are already doing everywhere in my area. I’d say we should also limit their ownership of apartment complexes. Though that’s a tougher problem to solve.
What area…if you don’t mind getting bing up some of that sweet sweet privacy
Id say even max two houses. No one needs more than one anyways. The second can be for the rich assholes that need vacation homes.
That or limit it to being outside a certain radius, so you can have your house in the city and a second property out in the woods for the weekend as long as it’s, for example, 50 miles away or more and then if you want a third property it needs to be at least 50 miles away from the other two and so on. Make it impractical enough that second properties are only cottages, not rental units in the same city.
Or control the type of ownership based on the number of doors. 1 to 4 doors > private ownership. 5 to 8 doors > corporation or cooperatives. 9 doors or more > cooperatives/non profit/State corporation.
650k people are homeless. Has nothing to do w housing market or salary.
“Data collected and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal from more than 250 homeless organizations have counted at least 550,000 homeless people so far, a 10 percent rise from last year’s reports. The numbers gathered from cities and rural areas show homelessness as it was on a single night earlier this year.
The upward trend means that the US will probably reach and pass the 2023 estimate of 653,000 homeless people. It’s the highest number since the government began sharing such data in 2007.”
Can go right next to the trophy for highest incarceration rates.
So like 1 in 50 500 pll is homeless?
That’s crazy. Ther is not even a significant crisis or war directly affecting the US.
Edit: I can’t read
Edit II : OK, reading was fine (on the first go) I just did my math with 1million = 100* thousand … I am tired and have a cold, please excuse my many fumbles in this comment xD.
I think you’re off by a factor of 10. 650k out of 330 million is about 1 in 500. It’s still way too many people, don’t get me wrong, just wanted to clarify.
WE’RE NUMBER ONE! LETS GOOO!