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SweetMojaveRain t1_jco3clw wrote

Reply to comment by m11cb in Elicker forcibly evicts and demolishes tent city by YankeeinNCandIhateit

A lot of homeless wouldnt be able to maintain a steady job and remain drug free to pay bills like that even if rent was cheap. You want less homeless, being back thr asylums tbh, they just closed them not realizing that without somewhere to keep the mentally ill, they just flit in between methadone clinics and hospital Emergency departments not ever getting the help they need.

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fingers t1_jcoq3rk wrote

How about Universal Basic Income? Can't work? You get money to live.

Can work but wages are shit because of capitalism? You get money to live.

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SweetMojaveRain t1_jcppfsj wrote

That….completely misses what im talking about. Even IF you gave them UBI and a rent controlled apt every month, some mentally ill homeless are not of sound mind enough to understand how bills and rent works. Some are just so far gone in their demons that theyd turn that apartment into a drug den and shoot the UBI up their arm. Its sad but true. Elicker had no choice here unless he wanted to turn new haven into skid row or like those areas of philly that look like World War Z.

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buried_lede t1_jcp9el0 wrote

First of all, it’s just a blatant lie that all homeless are drug addicted or mentally disabled, period, and those who are need housing not asylums. When asylums closed it was for good reason but they closed them without opening the housing and support services that were supposed to replace them.

Your comment is insensitive and ill informed. My generation grew up with the horrors of the asylums on the cover of news magazines every week until we finally shut them down. And you want to reverse a whole generation’s efforts because Ronald Reagan fucked it up by refusing to put the supports in place.

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