Not even $20 billion to get started. I’d imagine, for a city like mine, $1 billion would be enough to get started.
The problem is you have to build the infrastructure first:
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Medical facility, staffed, with the capability of both short and long term medical, mental, and addiction treatment.
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Job placement facility, staffed, with skills training, resume assistance, interview skills, clothing assistance, laundry facility, permanent address for applications, phones and email. Will also likely need specialists capable of working with people who have criminal records.
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Housing assistance, staffed. Work with local housing to get people into facilities. Will also likely need specialists capable of working with people who have criminal records.
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Prison facilities for those who have active warrants or are currently committing crimes.
Once you have invested in all that, $1B? $1.5B? Then you sweep the homeless off the streets and figure out where they need to go.
Need medical care? #1. Medically and mentally fit? #2 and #3. All of the above but an outstanding warrant? #4.
For the folks with mental health and addiction issues, the goal needs to be to release them into #2 and #3. Folks do their time in #4, release them back to #1, 2, or 3 as needed.
Eventually, everyone gets the help they need, and the only problem children are the minority “homeless by choice” “Fuck you, man, I aint part of your system! I throw it on the ground!”
Those folks need their asses kicked. Give them a place to live but the price is cleaning up homeless camps.
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I know a lot of homeless people where I’m from suffer from mental illness and drug addiction, and a small subset of them are probably violent. I’m not sure how that makes them unworthy of help though? But regardless of empathy and compassion, wouldn’t society be better off if we provided mental health care and helped them get over their addiction? They could even become functioning members of society!
afrikanernazi says what
Half of homeless people are former foster children.
Every time you think you have the measure of how awful this man is, he proves himself to be a bit worse.
I spent ten years working with people living on the streets and in homeless shelters. Every year I helped with the homeless census.
God I fucking hate this asshole
