Yup. Really this is all just a vain attempt to avoid the unavoidable. Either we house the homeless or we're just paying more to put them up in prisons and psych wards.

I say "them," but >50% of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque and would be homeless within 3 months if they lost their jobs. So it's us.

Either we guarentee housing for us all or we pay more today to throw ourselves in jail/nuthouse tomorrow.

[–] maplesaga@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The problem I think is these are drug addicts.

How do you safely maintain the housing, what do the contractors do when they're doing meth as the pipes are flooding?

Its like taking care of violent mentally handicapped adults, or like pitbulls.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Yes that happens but ratios matter. Apply the 80:20 rule and you find that 80% of incidents are perpetrated by the top 20% of perpetrators.

Invert that and you find that 80% of incidents are perpetrated by people with a higher aptitude for intervention.

Than you also need to appreciate that there is an underlying, over arching, and penetrating, theme of "too little too late" in our welfare system.