The cruelty is the point!
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2026
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We've known about the Housing First initiative the world over for years. Housing First with needs based assistance works, it's proven to work. we know it works. Addiction and Mental Health issues are symptoms of being homeless.
We know the solution to the "complex" issue of homelessness. We know how to fix it. There's just no money to be made in doing so. So we won't fix it even though we can.
The problem is that homelessness is required under capitalism because it helps force us to work in conditions we would otherwise not stand for. This is why socialist nations have such low homelessness and high home ownership rates
Trump is fronting for an unholy alliance of for-profit prisons, megacorporations, and fascists to create then criminalize homelessness so that the fascists can arrest many more people, the for-profit prisons can profit off of their incarceration and the corporations can use them as slave labor.
Essentially they're recreating the Victorian workhouses and the conditions to nominally justify them and fill them.