You’re somehow missing the biggest one: there shouldn’t be homeless, there is enough housing, and all this would be fixed if the roof
T of the problem, capitalism, was replaced with a system that doesn’t threaten being homeless to anyone.
Nobody gets housing for free and thanks to measure 110, we enabled every junkie in the country to come here.
That’s the larger problem. We don’t have treatment programs and we lack the laws to commit people against their will. Portland Street Response in particular doesn’t even have the ability to put people on holds.
You’re somehow missing the biggest one: there shouldn’t be homeless, there is enough housing, and all this would be fixed if the roof T of the problem, capitalism, was replaced with a system that doesn’t threaten being homeless to anyone.
Nobody gets housing for free and thanks to measure 110, we enabled every junkie in the country to come here.
That’s the larger problem. We don’t have treatment programs and we lack the laws to commit people against their will. Portland Street Response in particular doesn’t even have the ability to put people on holds.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2023/06/21/portland-street-response-futilely-sought-authority-to-hold-distressed-people-against-their-will/