• Cornpop@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Something needs to be done though. This a start but only half of a solution. The homeless do need to be taken off the streets and the massive roadside camps need to be demolished. It’s a legit health and safety hazard. Maybe make dedicated areas a little more off the beaten path and provide power and water and sewer services for them to set up in a more appropriate area in the woods.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Or maybe the problem should not be swept under the rug, and the root causes, meaning the housing market, the economy and mental health should be treated.

      Note that many other places don’t have a problem of homeless encampments this big. Wonder why.

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        3 months ago

        And how would we do that? In places like SF we’ve spent billions trying to fix the problem … and nothing has been fixed. There are many options for help but the people on the streets choose not to seek for help, they made the decision to stay on the streets and this is the consequence.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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          3 months ago

          Yeah, it’s their fault, not the nonexistent public (mental) healthcare, not the insane inflation and housing prices, not any of that.

          Maybe those billions should have been spent differently. How many houses did you build out of those billions for example?

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      3 months ago

      This a start but only half of a solution

      It’s the second, worse half. Set up those services first. Destroying what little these people can scrape together only serves to push them further down.