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Just put people without homes in homes it is literally that fucking simple. Homelessness is one of the things that libs love overcomplicating more than nearly any other societal issue
Have you considered this though?
In the UK, there are literally more vacant houses than homeless people.
Landlords can jump off a cliff.
that's broadly true in the US too but much of the housing stock is in rural and suburban areas that just compound poverty (requiring cars/there's no work) so the lack of housing is still acute in cities
I don't see why we have to stop at housing why not provide food and healthcare too
of course, there's just a misunderstanding that we could seize all the vacancies in a city or wherever and actually house the local houseless, which is not necessarily true despite the national statistics
Naturally, the real solution is to build more luxury apartments and parking lots for the prospective tenants.
5% of the units will be "low income" for 4 years after construction. If you criticize this development plan in any way you're pro-homelessness, btw
Fuck, have you been spying on me? How did you perfectly quote my city council??
Yeah but if that person gets a home then why did I have to pay for MY home??? Checkmate liberal.
We're also going to defund St. Judes Children Hospital since those kids don't pay for their healthcare either. I'm tired of handouts.
Point out that the root cause of the housing crisis is the commodification of housing and watch their heads spin. The solution is so simple but some parasite can't profit off of human needs, so it'll never happen.
They do love overcomplicating it. I've heard so many wild and usually contradictory assertions and all from the same lib lol. Ex "they don't even want to live in homes", and "they live in homes, they just go out and beg because they don't want to work."
It's like the, "they don't want to go to shelters because they have to be sober" line from people who have never witnessed how fucked up shelters can be.