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We're collectively picking all the worst solutions, aren't we?
We have sunk to the point where living in your car is an acceptable living option, and the government would rather have that, than address the basic problem of housing affordability.
To exacerbate the issue, many communities and states are "banning" and criminalizing homelessness, arresting people for the crime of being so poor you can't afford any sort of roof.
The beatings will continue until we learn to enjoy it.
Paraphrasing a quote I head years ago: Americans will always do the right thing, after exhausting all other possibilities.
Rofl send money to jungle Mexicans or prevent students being homeless.....
What are jungle Mexicans? I'm trying to be open minded but it sounds like your talking shit
A drive-in bedroom. How very American.
At least it's safe from police brutality. I just watched a video of a police officer breaking grandpas ribs and collapsing his lung for sleeping in his car at a unofficial park. He was driving across the states and got so tired that he couldn't keep his eyes open, so he pulled over to nap with his fucking bird. He had his pet bird in the passenger seat. So we can't even sleep in our cars without getting assaulted
I often sleep in my car while traveling for work. It doesn't make sense to pay $100 plus, when I'm only going to be in it for 6 hours.
I ALWAYS park in a rest area or a truck stop, and I've never had an issue.
If your company is not paying expenses for a hotel, get another job.
Crazy what Americans have to go through
My boss sucks, he's a cheapskate, and an incompetent boob, and I'd quit, but I don't know what else to do.
I'm self-employed.
Respect your employee more, let them have a decent night's sleep.
Fuck him, he's a bum. My other employees are awesome though.
At a rest stop or truck stop it's expected that truckers are a sleep. I know Michigan can be full of truck stops while Illinois has maybe one that I know, more like a welcome center. I'm actually impressed that Michigan invested into so many stops. While driving through some parts the country I got a piss into a bottle or behind a dumpster. The dumpster is fun, I can scare the shit out of random employees taking out the trash. I could also end up unconscious, risky
Careful out there.
I don't have much experience driving through Illinois outside of one trip where on & off ice was the issue. I wasn't processing rest areas at the time. I like driving in the south.
I hate Illinois nazis.
I know many people who worked in the capital but lived outside of it and, since traffic makes it basically impossible to get into the city between 8 and 9am, they would arrive at ~7 and just nap for an hour or two in their cars. I can't, for the life of me, even fathom why that would be wrong in the eyes of a copper. Truly ACAB.
The 1930s had hoovervilles.
We have the trump dorms.
This reminds me of those stories of old England where there were warehouses filled with coffins and you could rent a coffin to sleep in if you were homeless. Or even better, if you are too poor for the coffin there were those houses where you can rent your place on a rope tied between two wooden beams, so you can hang ober the rope and have a good night's sleep until in the morning the owner wakes you up by cutting the rope.
Progress.
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shoulder of any interstate ramp. leave parking lights on. lock doors. turn off engine and sleep. good for a few hours.
They'll finally get to use their Rivian's third bedroom.
Hard times for people living outside their means.
Ts&Ps!
How about REAL SOLUTION
BAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS
"We have the money to fix the problem, we really just don't want to."
Everyone always says homelessness is a complicated issue due to addiction and mental health and then that's it. full stop. in many peoples heads those TWO groups are the ONLY groups that make up the homeless population. but after volunteering I know better. you have students, you have women escaping domestic abuse, you have the elderly who can no longer afford rent, you have kids who are LGBTQ+ that have been disowned by their families, you have refugees, and you have people who simply lost their jobs and fell through the cracks.
allowing students to sleep in their cars is not a solution. it's another band aid applied to a massive gaping wound. And this isn't just an America issue, several countries are guilty of band aid "solutions". I mean hell here in Canada the government is talking about investing $1billion into AI for fucks sake. That $1billion could be better served in providing people with homes. There's never any long term planning here, always short term "solutions". Wouldn't it be advantageous to governments to ensure people have homes in order to get them back into the workforce thus paying taxes.
Call me a heart on the sleeve soft liberal all you want but I'm of the firm belief that EVERYONE deserves and has the right to a home and food and if they can't provide either of those things for themselves than we as a society, as a community, need to provide it for them. And I firmly believe that the majority of our society feel the same and wouldn't mind their tax dollars going towards that. It's just that the powers that be don't want that.
One of the most humane solutions is also the most economically efficient. Early intervention programs like rent/utility assistance are significantly cheaper in the long run than trying to rehabilitate people who have already lost everything and have a litany of health issues because of it. If conservatives really want to save money, they should be embracing "an ounce of prevention saves a pound of cure." Instead, they're stuck in wanting to SEE the desperation before even considering helping. Safety nets are major economic stimulus in the long run because it's much easier to attempt entrepeneurship if you aren't making a life and death gamble. But something tells me the currently wealthy know this and don't want competition popping up.
Then of course we also need to fix affordability issues, because unaffordable necessities put everyone at risk.
My point is that even if you mostly just care about efficient government and economic growth, you should still come to similar conclusions as "bleeding heart liberals." Conservatives don't come to those conclusions not by economic arguments, but because they fail to see the merit of collective problem solving. They want to have their own little castle with all their stuff that they can defend under penalty of death. We pretend the argument is about feasability and cost effectiveness, but the real issue is that they don't think that any proposal that would take anything from them or require giving is an option. That's why you see the economically destitute and ultra wealthy in an unholy alliance. Both of those groups are prone to wanting to circle the wagons and consider only the wellbeing of people in their little circle -- the poor out of desperation, and the wealthy out of possessiveness. Everyone not in their little circle is someone else's problem.
See? We can have a society in which some people have 10 homes and some have none.
"#BothSides"