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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Wonder where the money goes?
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on The Legality of Homelessness
All homeless aren't panhandlers just as all panhandlers aren't homeless. Agressive panhandlers need their behaviour put in check but there are already laws against street robberies and mugging.
Nuff law already exist!
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Capitalism's only about 500 years old if that's any consolation. Perhaps humanity can outlive it.
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
No matter how good hearted Obama is and how much he would like to see his countrymen with universal healthcare, he may not be able to achieve that aim as he has the views of the WHOLE of his constituency to answer to.
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Homelessness is a hard concept for Africans to get their heads around also.
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
How right you are! The single-sex mass warehousing of human beings isn't that attractive to most people.
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Are the majority of the homeless addicts? You might be surprised to find that substance abuse problems are pretty uniform across society.
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Ah, the Mecca effect. Be careful not to confuse "capitalism" with "democracy."
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Big up Iz and Nick!
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Well, the first consideration is probably the salaries of the people running the programs
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Welcome to America, Jose
Where the wage you earn is fifty bucks a day
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Well, another Dignity Village might not be a bad idea. There's plenty of work out there building houses and tending gardens, doing security work, office work.
posted 3 years, 7 months ago
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Some of those 800 "beds" are in fact mats on the floor and are only available in places like the Portland Rescue Mission in the colder months when the homeless grist for the homelessness mill might otherwise perish due to neglect.
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Those 800 "beds" in fact include mats on the floor and are only available during the colder months in places like the Portland Rescue Mission.
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Some of what was originally built as "affordable housing" for the poor was just too damn attractive and now commands a nice price from the middle class!
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
The politicians I'm sure worry about the "Mecca effect" of places like Dignity Village but there it's more like "If you let them build it, they will come."
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on No Place to Call Home: Chronic Homelessness
Here in the UK we've had a national health service for sixty years that covers the whole population and social housing that about a quarter of the population live in. We have good services as I imagine most other developed countries in the West do.
A problem with the US seems to be the aversion to words like "social" as in "social housing" and "social medicine," probably a consequence of your country's tragic history during the Cold War, would imagine many Americans would be suspicious of "social medicine," might see it as the thin end of the wedge for a full on Soviet-style takeover or something. And so Americans die on average about five years younger than most Europeans.
It's the same with housing. In America you hear a lot about "affordable housing" that many poor people can barely afford to rent because of your free market system where everything's up for sale. And so there in the "Land of the Free" you see homeless people pretty much wall-to-wall.
Homeless people should be free to help themselves a la your town's famous Dignity Village.
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