Ironically, no, it wouldn’t. At least not longterm. I know many people on lemmy don’t want to hear that because capitalism bad or something, but it’s the reality. Do you unironically think you can just give every homeless person a home and it would all magically sort itself out? Most likely not. Homes need to be maintained, which cost money.
In order to “solve” homelessness, you need to give people the ability to fix their lives themselves. It reminds me a lot of the attempts to help africa back in the early 2000s when europe would send a lot of heavy machinery to africa to help them improve farming, but they couldn’t properly maintain or use the machinery because they didn’t have the technical knowledge or the machinery simply wasn’t suitable, so they just left them to rust or dismantled them for parts and quick money. Instead, europe moved to an approach that would enable those people to help themselves by providing better education etc.
Just giving people free housing will not work unless you also come up with a plan to maintain said housing, which costs money, which has to be paid for. If you don’t have a plan like that in place, you will probably create a highly criminal slum within a couple of months, if not weeks.
I dislike musk and most stock-market-billionaires as much as most people on here, but pretending we can just take all their wealth away and the entire world would be a beautiful place where everyone can live happy and it smells like butterscotch-pie everywhere is just an extremely immature take.
if you give everyone a home (in somewhere rural with no inspectors) and provide one way transit it will solve it for until the rural place stops being rural.
Homelessnes is not a problem you can solve with any amount of money.
Buying everyone a home wouldn’t end homelessness? Weird.
There are some people who that wouldn’t help, therefore we shouldn’t help anybody.
Ironically, no, it wouldn’t. At least not longterm. I know many people on lemmy don’t want to hear that because capitalism bad or something, but it’s the reality. Do you unironically think you can just give every homeless person a home and it would all magically sort itself out? Most likely not. Homes need to be maintained, which cost money.
In order to “solve” homelessness, you need to give people the ability to fix their lives themselves. It reminds me a lot of the attempts to help africa back in the early 2000s when europe would send a lot of heavy machinery to africa to help them improve farming, but they couldn’t properly maintain or use the machinery because they didn’t have the technical knowledge or the machinery simply wasn’t suitable, so they just left them to rust or dismantled them for parts and quick money. Instead, europe moved to an approach that would enable those people to help themselves by providing better education etc.
Just giving people free housing will not work unless you also come up with a plan to maintain said housing, which costs money, which has to be paid for. If you don’t have a plan like that in place, you will probably create a highly criminal slum within a couple of months, if not weeks.
I dislike musk and most stock-market-billionaires as much as most people on here, but pretending we can just take all their wealth away and the entire world would be a beautiful place where everyone can live happy and it smells like butterscotch-pie everywhere is just an extremely immature take.
So pay for maintenance? That is an amount of money.
And where do you suggest we take that metric fuckton of money from?
I believe the post suggests the modern robber barons. But I wasn’t suggesting a strategy.
That’s the problem. You can’t just say “Pay for X!” without having at least some kind of plan.
Trying to pull money off billionaires the entire time is not sustainable.I
if you give everyone a home (in somewhere rural with no inspectors) and provide one way transit it will solve it for until the rural place stops being rural.