Eric_Fapton t1_j3wswd0 wrote on January 11, 2023 at 4:42 PM

Why don't we have federally funded places ANYONE who is facing a housing problem can go and live while they get back on their feet. We have plenty of space, we have the billions of dollars to build these places in every state. In my mind, they would look much like a college campus. For less than 1% of our military budget, we could have these places in every state so that none would ever have to sleep on the street.

I live next to Greenhill park and there are always at least a few people living in tents in the woods here along the trails. I came across one gut while walking my dog, and he started to apologize to me. Not only that, but I responded with, “It's as much your right to be in this park as mine, you have nothing to apologize for.”

New-Vegetable-1274 t1_j3yvsig wrote on January 12, 2023 at 12:28 AM

We had such facilities during the dust bowl and the depression. FDR instituted a handful of programs that housed and fed people and put them to work on infrastructure across the country. It was part of the new deal there was WPA, the CCCs the TVA and others. None of that would work now, nobody wants to work. As a nation we've become conditioned to a lot of something for nothing and that is ingrained in the psyches of people across the economic spectrum from EBT cards to corporate bonuses. I think temporary assistance isn't enough. I think in addition to housing and food it should also include a useful education. It would require one adult family member to get a real degree not some useless liberal art degree or to learn a trade. The US pisses away so much money on so many things with zero returns on it's investments. It's time to invest in America.