Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/02/26/are-there-no-workhouses-7.html
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Fucking socialists. /s
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Unfortunately for a large percentage of 'muricans that’s the reaction. They won’t understand that even if this saves money and makes their own lives immeasurably better but that somehow this might affect the bank account balance high score for some singular individual it’s “theft” and awful and immoral (even if that singular individual’s life is also improved.
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“I’m miserable so they should be too! (Even more so.)”
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Jeezo! who’d a thunk?
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I have to admire a program that says “How do we solve the problem of people not having a home? Give them a home. Next problem…why are you looking at me like that? People with a home aren’t homeless, problem solved.”
I’m glad they appreciate the fact that homelessness and mental illness are a self reinforcing system. You make someone live like an animal outside and they’re going to start losing marbles, and they may not have had many to start with. You can’t fix the mental health issues unless you address the factors causing it. Drug use is more of a symptom than a cause as well, especially when you talk about people who go through the programs but habitually relapse. They’re being “cured” and then dumped right back into the same environment that made them start using drugs in the first place.
A thought occurs that this may have been largely possible due to the glut of abandoned but repairable housing after Katrina.
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Can’t possibly work. They need to be humiliated, starved, and forced to be bootstrappy. And we need to give rich people lots of money.
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starts by giving homeless people stable, permanent housing, and then addressing confounding factors
confounding, compounding, or both?
Nice to hear some good news.
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This could work in Detroit, where we have a lot of vacant property as well as, I was quite recently distressed to learn, a large number of homeless families with children in my kids’ school. (Diestressed that there are homeless families, not that they attend my kids’ schools.)
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So… giving the homeless permanent homes greatly helped reduce homelessness:
Whodathunkit?
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Salt Lake City had a similar program with similar results.
https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how
Sorry that isn’t one boxing…
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A thought occurs that this may have been largely possible due to the glut of abandoned but repairable housing after Katrina.
This is the issue. If you have a massive surplus of housing, this policy should work well, but for the Seattles, San Franciscos, Los Angeleses, and San Diegos of the world, not so much.
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Same folks who think AOC actually paying her staffers is socialism. Fuck actually fixing a problem, we need to maximize misery!
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This plan makes Supply-Side Jesus cry.
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Stop making sense.
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Well that’s gonna piss of conservatives that are spiteful and selfish. In a lot of way they are the kid that threw a temper tantrum at a birthday party because they thought one kid was getting a slightly larger piece of cake.
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Sorry, no. There is an amazing amount of chronic homelessness here, and the Utah Housing First program never really did what they said.
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Okay, but the article notes that they have done some things right and they have had a positive impact on the problem of chronic homelessness. So even if it’s not the silver bullet solution, it’s started an important conversation and had a positive impact on the problem overall.
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Don’t be fooled by the “lack” of supply. There are many vacant houses in the cities you mention, and a lot of Airbnbs.
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