People must have their basic needs of food, shelter, and safety met before anything else can be reasonably addressed/improved.
this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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Given all the really well understood externalities of homelessness, I'd say so.
Why can’t we fund both properly? Housing and healthcare? Maybe both should be a guarantee. Can’t really have life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness without food, healthcare, and housing security, after all.
Oh, sorry, but it is socialism if the government is providing services to us taxpayers instead of giving handouts to billionaires.
I like socialism, that’s fine with me! :)
Because the US needs poor desperate people to join the military.
No one chose to be born. You can't live without housing, food, water, or medicine. They've human rights and societies should recognize that. It's disgusting that we live in an era of excess to the point it's suffocating the planet and people are dying in the streets from a lack of resources. Artificial scarcity for the sake of profit isn't a valid reason for people to suffer
Take two houses and call me in the morning.
The rest of the civilized world decided 76 years ago that housing is an innate, natural human right.
The homelessness problem endemic to America (it's not an epidemic if it never goes away) is flagrant violation of human rights.
Never ending human rights violations...that pushes us up against crimes against humanity. A logical evolution towards making that case (tho I'm already of the opinion that the allowed existence of poverty anywhere constitutes crimes against humanity)