• @[email protected]
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    385 months ago

    Just remember: there are over 23 vacant homes per homeless person in the land of the free. 🤢

    • Flying Squid
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      165 months ago

      And the best solution to homelessness is to house people. Does it solve all homelessness? No it doesn’t. Addiction services and mental health services will go even further to solve homelessness.

      You will never get 100% of the people off the streets, but there are a few very simple solutions that can drastically reduce the numbers.

      Of course, all of that requires raising taxes, so it almost never happens.

      • @disguy_ovahea
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        85 months ago

        Well, that depends who you ask. There are a lot of corporations who count on the penal system’s forced labor. Could you imagine what reduced incarceration of addicts and the unhoused would do to their margins?

      • @[email protected]
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        45 months ago

        What’s nuts is it doesn’t require raising taxes, our government is absurdly bloated and lots of people have strong incentives to keep it that way

    • @[email protected]
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      105 months ago

      Land of the free (to make sure other people can’t have homes because human society is purposefully about exploitation).

    • @Etterra
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      25 months ago

      More like the land where you’re free to fuck off and die in a gutter.

  • Skeezix
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    135 months ago

    If they have over 650k why are they living on the streets?

  • Flying Squid
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    95 months ago

    I’m guessing two massive, extremely destructive hurricanes will not help with that.

      • @CatZoomies
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        45 months ago

        Republican Party: “Is it possible to learn this power?”

      • @3ntranced
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        15 months ago

        Patrick Star:“Just take the homeless people, and push them somewhere else!”

    • Flying Squid
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      115 months ago

      I’m told that if they didn’t eat avocado toast and put $20 in their savings account every week from the day they turned 18, all of those homeless people could afford houses by now.

      • @Zron
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        85 months ago

        Oh boy, 7 grand by the time they’re 25.

        Yeah that’ll help

  • @xc2215x
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    55 months ago

    So terrible to see for US.