Cities reporting increases in unhoused people include Seattle, San Francisco, Washington, DC, Philadelphia and Miami
  • ililiililiililiilili
    321·
    16 小时前

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

    • Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      10·
      11 小时前

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

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      152·
      15 小时前

      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.

      • TexMexBazooka
        3·
        3 小时前

        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

      • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
        7·
        13 小时前

        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?

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
      11·
      14 小时前

      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.