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What could also help is a department of housing that anyone could walk into that provides them with temporary housing that leads to full time housing if needed.
I agree 100% as long as the criteria for obtaining government help is passing a drug test. I'm more than happy to have my tax dollars help someone who fell on hard times and needs some assistance to become a productive member of society again. I am not happy with my tax dollars going to house someone who would rather feed their meth or opiate addiction than get a job. Let them dig their hole and bury themselves in it.
Except that's not what happens. What happens is your tax dollars go to locking those people up, cleaning up their encampments, paying for their ER visits
That's great. I'll do my part to help pay to keep them in jail. At least there, they're not shitting in communal areas, leaving used needles in the park, and breaking into houses.
That's been working really well, huh