Properly funded programs create jobs and mitigate the harm poverty is causing our society.
So no chance of them being properly funded since homelessness is a threat to everyone to stay in line and not make life more difficult for the poor wealthy and political classes.
It exists to make sure people stay in terrible jobs with no options.
Pretty much my experience. Maybe this massive price sticker will move the needle. Le doubt.
But like solving poverty is an entirely different thing than mitigating the harm caused by poverty. Talking from experience, NIMBY resentment towards halfway housing is validated when there isn’t enough resources to properly insulate and control access.
Vast majority of homeless people are disabled or aged out of foster care. Obviously most of them aren’t criminals, at first. But we leave them in the cold until they turn to drugs; than years of addiction driven deterioration turns some of them feral. We are literally throwing the vulnerable people of our society to the wolves.
So no chance of them being properly funded since homelessness is a threat to everyone to stay in line and not make life more difficult for the poor wealthy and political classes.
It exists to make sure people stay in terrible jobs with no options.
Pretty much my experience. Maybe this massive price sticker will move the needle. Le doubt.
But like solving poverty is an entirely different thing than mitigating the harm caused by poverty. Talking from experience, NIMBY resentment towards halfway housing is validated when there isn’t enough resources to properly insulate and control access.
Vast majority of homeless people are disabled or aged out of foster care. Obviously most of them aren’t criminals, at first. But we leave them in the cold until they turn to drugs; than years of addiction driven deterioration turns some of them feral. We are literally throwing the vulnerable people of our society to the wolves.