People frequently state the statistic about the number of empty houses and apartments versus the number of homeless.
There are 27.4 Empty Homes for Each Homeless Person in the U.S
Well, there’s about a million times more empty parking spots versus people living in their car.
There’s a reason that we don’t let people be employed and their only payment is food and shelter.
Gotta protect those homeless people from being stuck in a predatory job that gives them food and shelter?
Rephrased: let’s incentivize homelessness so we can use them as de facto slaves because they won’t make money so can’t escape.
We tried that before. Corporate towns were hell. The minimum wage wasn’t created because we are just so nice. It was to address a problem.