Where the hell are these people supposed to go? Shelters don't let you stay there indefinitely. No one wants to give them the homes they can't afford or the mental health care they desperately need. Sorry, they're not just going to lay down in the middle of the street and die because that's not how anything works, so what exactly do the cities expect them to do?
Cities: We expect them to get help! Just not from us. We can't lower property values like that.
of course its not the answer.
the answer would be sOcIaLiSt. can't have that.
Socialism is evil. Sweeping humans away from their cardboard homes so they are suffering away from direct sight is way more ethical
Cracking down on homeless camps is like popping zits every morning to get rid of them while you rub bacon on your face 8 hrs a day.
It is the answer to the "problem" most people care about: unhoused people being visible.
My wife is a library administrator and they are working on putting up a library branch in a poorer part of town, and people came to the board meeting to object, because it would attract more of "them" to the area. As if there weren't plenty of homeless people there already.
Reminds me of an announcement the dean made on Community: "In order to increase awareness of homelessness, security has been given binoculars"
What's so fucked to me is that giving them housing would do the same thing, it would make them less visible.
If that's what they really wanted, they could be convinced to fund housing for the homeless.
They can't be convinced, ergo the cruelty is the point.
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