Something I'm seeing in my state is a dramatic rise in elderly population. People just cant afford rents. Or Healthcare. Or anything. And let's not forget it effects marginalized groups the most.
Absolutely. I worked as a Clinical SW on a team that moved adults with SPMI into permanent supportive housing in NC. Everyone deserves safe affordable housing. 💙
Thats awesome I'm an LCSW who has worked with unhoused for years. I worked at an FQHC that specifically served unhoused. We had a drop in center and I was the staff liason to the patient advisory board that met weekly at one point
Omg, great point!
I drive a semi, I have interacted with TONS of elderly drivers who tell me they 'came out of retirement to help a friend out'..... being a yard jockey for his personal mega corporation??
I always tell them 'aw, that was nice of ya!' & But wow! Holy shit you're right!
It disgusted me that Joe Biden wrote an executive order on day one canceling something Trump did to make insulin cheeper, just so Joe could write another executive order a year later lowering the price again.
People always assume if you ain't crazy or on drugs it can't happen..
There is a multitude of reasons it happens. Somwtimes one life disaster is what sends you to the hole. We need to be addressing homelessness for what it is.
My partner and I, despite both being in work, were made homeless as the tenancy ran out and we couldn't find a landlord that would take us on such low income. Had to stay with friends before we found somewhere and it was terrible.
A lot of times it leads to drug use to cope - like the person is evicted sober and ends up relapsing or addicted. People can't afford rent and if you have no family to help you are screwed
I hope I’m never in a situation where I’m forced to survive on my own. I think people need to have someone below them to “feel better” when really, we could feel empathy. Instead we just blame poor people for being poor.
People in poverty have been scapegoated from the beginning. United we stand
When society comes to grips with the illusion and the inbred misogyny of thinking we are just one break away from becoming the elite, we will realize we have always been much closer to being unhoused than a millionaire. This is how they keep their boots on our necks.
Or stop with this BS and just give everyone a fucking apartment. Public housing is neither difficult, nor communism. Sweden does it, japan does it, Singapore does it, and many other places do it.
The Japanese government does not have a Housing First program yet. Traditionally, the government offers public housing (so-called Koei-jutaku) for low-income people by public housing law, run by local government. Rent fees are adjusted according to household income. Eligibility is by a lottery.
Am I understanding this correctly? It’s hip for tree-huggers with Subarus to go tent camping but criminal to live in a tent? There is no shortage of hypocrisy in America. 🇺🇸
Grow up. That is not “The End” and pretending it is does nothing except allow you to feel better about yourself while avoiding doing the hardwork of understanding the issues.
Global free trade has resulted in the most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty in the entire history of civilization.
Homelessness is the result of a misalignment of incentives for policy makers and a host of other factors beyond your simplistic explanations. It would be nice if the world worked as simply as “those greedy bad guys are the problem,” but that explains only a fraction of the sources of these issues.
If the guys with money did somless about those "other factors" we wouldn't have homelessness. You're ignoring the "other factors" are probably caused by lack of money though.
Again I fear that this does little to explain the lack of action on a policy level. The money needed to resolve the issue is already available in several forms; it’s agreeing on how to allocate it that no one can agree about.
That's kinda dumb to say because when the companies pay them off they vote a certain way real quick. I don't think you're understanding how this works lol.
If all billionaires contributed just one day's income towards national housing, there wouldn't be a crisis.
But then again it could be easier to get blood from a stone than from those damned tax evaders.
Why cant a fellow american help out the homeless with meals or food or something like a tent for them? Why are the police and the state so against helping a needed person out?
Many do, it just doesn't scale very well. Especially in some areas.
Treatment and rehabilitation programs are more effective at reducing homelessness (and state costs) but are often criticized as being "soft on crime" and a political liability.
Then whatsup with some of the youtube videos you see people with a huge haul of food getting in trouble with the law trying to help others, this is what i was curious about why the law is like this...
I agree with you, that's one of the reasons it doesn't scale very well. There's others, of course.
Those laws exist to harm people. If they were truly about protecting people, they would be consistent with other food safety laws and have an easy path to compliance.
Some say the solutions are simple, others says solutions are hard but what I see is an unwillingness to try any solution at all that is genuiney helpful to that community or society at large. We have some unhoused who are living worse than refugees in a warzone in our own "developed" nations.
Yes its pretty horrifying. In the past I was part of a subcommittee connected to our local city council focused on Housing. It was pointless because the city managers and others working for the city weren't willing to budge.
So what, was it something like
"Do you want to be in a subcommittee to fix homelessness?"
"Yes! Here's a list of things you can do"
"Naa, we're not going any of that. Sorry city voters, we tried everything"
...like this?
Newsom has been adding billions in funding for shelters and mental hospitals, and has been overhauling our entire system so the State manages it instead of letting cities and counties waste money on ineffective NGO's.
I want to believe that the logic in this is to put people in a facility and then make a determination on how to help them- [get ID, set up for SSI, or disability, etc, but I also know that JAIL DOESNT WORK THAT WAY.
And people gonna DIE.
They have all but come out and said that your life has no value unless you’re working. Now they want all homeless people jailed, because prison and the 13th amendment left a slavery loophole.
I've only been to Toronto in the summer. I was wondering what would happen to them in the winter. I thought they would get some type of temporary accommodation or maybe they would put their tents underground.
There is an underground transit system, and unknown how much that would accommodate people… The cold is somewhat tolerable with clothing and sleeping bags and basic shelter
On Dec. 10, 2024, Musk posted the following in X: "In most cases, the word 'homeless' is a lie. It's usually a propaganda word for violent drug addicts with severe mental illness."
Our new shadow president Elon is a Marvel arch villain.
“We think too much and feel too little.” Charlie Chaplin’s words from The Great Dictator echo louder today as we criminalize homelessness instead of addressing its roots. Compassion and solutions are replaced with cruelty and punishment.
This is not progress—it’s inhumanity. #EndHomelessness
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
Abso-fuking-lutely!! We actually just joined a group of folks who are currently providing top notch trailers for folks that lost their homes to Helene. (happens to be a church) One of the families (of 8) were living in a van that was swept away. - We need MORE human solutions!
"I'm so sorry you have to stand while you wait for the bus because this HUMAN BEING with no house is so desperate for a place to sleep that a cold metal bench looks good."
Once due to truly no fault of my own (long story) I was homeless. It is so scary. I’d rather be dead than go through that again so… survival is survival.
What I don’t get is the insane amount of abandoned buildings in the USA that could easily be used for low/no income housing and yet… nothing. Countless malls, apartments, theatres, left to rot. Just open them up to those that need them. Let people go in, rebuild as needed. Housing crisis solved.
I mean… just let people HAVE them. There’s so many people who would just go in and restore these places JUST to have a roof over their heads. It’s better than letting them collapse and rot to nothing.
I kinda just meant let the people have them & restore em.
We sorta did that once. Our town let the community take an abandoned WWII barracks, fix it up & use it as a haunted house one year. Dozens of people put like a week’s worth of work cleaning & repairing the place & it was -awesome-.
Hey I was homeless for 7 months did not like security or VPD rousting me. Fact is the homeless camps are rife with gang activity and beatings and torture. I have seen homeless leave a big mess. I support the social housing here in BC I have given money to individual homeless ppl but the homeless
One of the worst things I see that makes me mad is when I encounter people who were released from prison and they were almost literally dumped on the streets after release without any resources or planning. It sets people up for failure/homelessness and all kinds of problems/drugs/bad stuff
Good question! It should be. I’ve also realized that maybe it could be argued that this and the right to food, medicine, etc could be covered by the US Constitution via the whole right to life thing. But hey, I’m no professional, I could be wrong.
I wonder if this is what it felt like right before the French Revolution. This country is this 👌🏼 close to rising for social justice #universalhealthcare
I wish people understood the French Revolution better. The socio-economic divide was honestly the SMALLER of the three parts; it was about toppling Absolutist Monarchy, so the upper-class would have power alongside the nobles
It was not really a popular revolution, it was just anti-absolutism
The way out of this mess is to stop using money and make everything free. We have enough resources for everyone we don't need a complicated number system deciding who deserves to live a good life
We all know it isn't survival. They just want to do drugs, murder and rob people and AMERICANS are tired of it. If I had it my way, they'd all be locked up and manufacturing our goods to keep costs down. #MAGA
The new administration is driving a message that the US poor and unhoused are in their situation because of moral and ethical laxness, especially EM. It’s going to be a rough 4 years.
Unfortunately homelessness will never be fixed. Politicians who genuinely want to help are an extreme rarity, and when they do manage to get foothold the asshole nimby's start coming out of the woodwork preventing the construction of affordable housing units and detoxification clinics
Can we get a little more nuance here? Who’s actually arguing that homeless people should be thrown in prison? Wanting clean, safe streets doesn’t automatically mean wanting people locked up. These slogans oversimplify and end up feeling silly.
Not only oversimplifying things, this becomes a weapon of the MAGA right, allowing them to create a narrative and impression that liberal democrats want dirty and dangerous streets in our cities, in our suburbs.
Seems like the best way to combat that would be to argue for providing free housing to everyone, then there's no possibility of that being taken as a pro-tent-city position.
In my town, and in many others, there's actually a law on the books that the penalty for sleeping anywhere in public is up to 6 months in jail plus up to $500 fine. Not to mention that on the campaign trail 45 talked about rounding us up and putting us in concentration camps.
"A 2018 report by Philip Alston, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty & human rights, found that homeless persons have effectively been criminalized in many cities around the United States, & noted that "punishing and imprisoning the poor is the distinctively American response to poverty"
Dude maby of the places are shutying down homeless camps and if they have no where to go they get arrested or are removed against their will. They will lock em up if it means they they are gone. You have too much faith in humanity. Im 50 and my experience is that most people are inherently bad!
Making it illegal to sleep outside doesn't house them. This is nuanced. The people who say these things are educated and put time and effort. I mean exactly this
Recently "The City of Moreton Bay issues a blanket ban forbidding homeless people from keeping pets or publicly sleeping in vans." Queensland Australia! They take away their options, take away their companions, take away their dignity & humanity. But they do issue blanket BANS!
It needs more - the govt needs to find solutions to break the cycle of homelessness - thats not just providing more housing, it’s breaking down barriers which prevent people from accessing support. Homelessness doesn’t have to be a thing if those in power try harder to provide real alternatives.
I might need that for my work. I work at a library and there's a lot of homeless people in the area.
P.S. I know people try to find alternative terminology for homeless people, but I like homeless people because you get to work PEOPLE into it. All the alternate names dehumanize the folks IMHO.
To quote Jonathan Larson's Lyrics from the Musical RENT's "You'll See" as Roger Davis sings,
"You can't just quietly wipe out an entire tent city...
Then watch 'It's A Wonderful Life' on TV!"
And oh how true Larson's words are.
The fact that as humans we’ve made it illegal to build our own shelter— the y’know the thing we’ve done for 50,000+ years that partly defines us as a species— means we are officially in the darkest timeline.
If they are meth heads it is an economy measure to make their hobby more affordable. People should not be judgemental about other people's pleasures. Social workers will be as welcome as a placard waving prohibitionist, Bible in hand, in a bar.
The state doesn't want you knowing that paying rent is a scam. that the whole system is a scam. thats why they shame it and criminalise it. even you there said it was just survival thats part of the brain washing.
Rent is a scam, all money is a scam. Viable alternative? just live outdoors. don't you see the post there is your solution. "Oh but you can't live like that" sure you can. you just aren't trying enough. comfortable is another word for lazy. All land ownership should be illegal.
Met a #homeless guy in #SantaMonica told me he was from #Colorado and the local government had bought him a one=way ticket and told him to go and not come back, it really disgusted me!
Imagine being placed on buses with many others , told in a language you don’t understand to get on that bus to take you somewhere … you don’t know where, you are pushed out of a bus in a place totally foreign & left to figure it out. Does that disgust you?
That was not my point, seems to have hit a nerve…my apologies. My point: imagine bus loads, with no idea where they are or what to do next…this is the reality from Texas & Florida….ironically on the tax payer dime.
I live downtown in a Florida college town. We’re one of few that provide unhoused services. I see bus loads of people shipped here, rolling suitcases and backpacks of all they have left to their names, looking around for safe camping spots. We don’t even have enough to support our local unhoused
Having a population without homes is a political choice. We have more than enough money in this country to give everyone fancy houses, but our corrupt politicians decided to let slumlord corporations (two words that make me taste bile) buy every building and rent it out.
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We should increase funding for mental health and addiction and reopen clean facilities and residences.
Encampments are not safe or sanitary. These people need to have a roof over their heads, hot meals, restrooms and most important, guidance to solve their problems long term.
Thats not a bad idea . Right now property gets used to take advantage like with those air b and bs. The city should provide shelter. People shouldn't have to sleep outside regardless of where it is. They should have housing
Anchorage, AK has had 47 homeless people die this year… and this winter has been mild. Like: it’s 40°F in Palmer on the solstice. Weirdly warm. Last year, 54 people died. No one wants a shelter in their neighborhood, and the mayor nixed funding last year. Awesome.
I was researching based on your comment. Basically there are a lot of religious organizations helping. However, there are very few “low barrier” shelters. Shelters fill up fast. It’s a complex issue… and having emergency shelter funding slashed was more than just shitty: people died.
Most churches are set up for worship, classes and administration. Not residential living. Local churches raise money and recruit volunteers to support the local shelters, food banks, etc.
Except Joel Osteen. He is a for profit, charlatan ministry, yet many think he is the symbol for Christianity.
Had to check your bio to see if you were in Maine, cus pretty sure it's not a crime in Oregon. Jeez didn't you guys vote blue? There's no logic to making it a crime. It's something a city needs to figure out and put funding towards. Making it illegal just costs money.
This could be a good thing. Even for rich people with rental properties. Make a question on the rental app like "are you willing to help unhoused people?" If yes, a place is available, and the owner gets a deduction. I can live with that.
True, but terrorists hiding behind civilians is sick too.I hate this war but I always hear Palistinians say death to Isreal.That doesn't sound like they want a resolution.They want a ceasefire so they can build up their stockpiles of death and attack Isreal again.Isreal kills civilians, it's crazy
remember to send a big flaming fuck you to Ronald Reagan for closing mental health institutions and effectively causing of the homelessness crisis for decades.
That and rich people buying houses. Until the homeless crisis is controlled there should be a limit of how many homes one person can own that they don't live in.
Empathy is incredibly dangerous though; people might stop buying The New Thing if they understood they could help people instead, and then how would billionaires afford their SECOND yacht.
Won't you think of the billionaires?!
Where I live, the mayor & his henchmen actually took the time to pound up signs around town that instruct folks NOT to give $$ to folks who are "panhandling".
The biggest issue corruption… it’s relocated to help CEOs who are alive. Solution? Ensure CEOs are unalive…
The point is to 100% kill homeless people… anything short of the same for corrupt politicians and CEOs lead to corruption and deaths of innocent people.
This is a nice thought, but working for a short bit In This sector has taught me that the housing first implementation in the US comes with many many strings attached. I can't speak for Canada, but block funding is a whole different beast in the US.
In the US they'd basically have to eliminate greedy assholes. It's like the moment an opportunity pops up and someone or a company comes to accept a payout. That would be the biggest hurdle. Another is getting both political to agree to this. Which is easier said than done. Then have the other...
Depending on the president the thing can become a reality. I don't see it happening under Trump. I can imagine he'll print money for him and his billionaire buddies. The US could do it. But it'll be difficult. After all the pentagon fails audits, yearly. Which says a lot.
Unfortunately we’re not Finland, a country that prioritizes its free education (including university), free healthcare, and quality of life over their military might and corporate wealth.
Finland doesn't just HAVE free education, they outlawed almost all for-profit even education-adjacent industry. They did basically the exact opposite of what Republicans are trying to do. Their rich kids and poor kids go to the same schools because there AREN'T private schools for rich kids.
Exactly. As I've heard, a rich person can't donate to the school their kid goes to. But they CAN donate to the school system, which will benefit their kids' school, plus every other school too.
This is how it should work
As I understand it, they can still donate materials to a school (books, colored pencils, instruments etc) their kid goes to, but it can only be relatively cheap stuff, and can't be big donations. Otherwise, as you said, it is a donation to the entire school system.
Good heavens! Socialism, communism or just a country and a government voted in to take care of all their citizens? How could a country afford such a thing? Maybe they don't glorify & cloister the mega wealthy parasites by making them pay their way?
They say in this video that inmates should have the same rights as other citizens. https://youtu.be/l554kV12Wuo?si=2B2p-SaTFt68ZAeZ in the US. It's like "oh boy we got a $0.34 an hour slave, again!" In California they seem to try and rehabilitate. My older brother has been given those chances. But he fucks it up.
There needs to be a federal emergency response to the homeless problem in the US. And yes universal healthcare implemented immediately. There is no excuse for this needless suffering and greed. It needs to end now. And solidarity of the population is the only way forward.
We need enough services on offer that no one needs to make camp. Camps aren't safe for anyone. Prison isn't the answer, but neither just ignoring the problem
Sure, the constitution says “cruel and unusual punishment”, which can be debated, but I think that if you are being punished for being homeless, that is cruel and unusual.
The thing this makes me think of is when a few homeless people set up a camp, because they had nowhere else to go, fully functioning and everything for them to live in, and the police tore it down, some people can't afford housing so they'll have to survive somehow, but the government doesn't--
On top of how homelessness shouldn't be criminalized to begin with, zoning needs to be abolished and land value taxes need to be implemented everywhere. Incentivizing a glut of supply is the best possible way to get the cost of housing down.
American Cities need to densify and redraw streets for people. Mixed-use high rises would put a big dent in the need for mid-low income housing in our cities where not everyone needs a car or a parking garage.
Increasing density and reducing reliance on cars would also go a huge way towards increasing overall affordability due to lower household costs (along with countless other benefits)
This. One of the tragic aspects of being unhoused is the exclusion from humanity. They are told to vacate, and charged with "loitering" like they don't belong on earth. Where are humans to go when they have no shelter? It's sick and barbaric for a society to treat its people this way.
Hello everyone. Anyway the blood of Jesus Christ against all fallen angels spirits with in any humans or by any humans who is reading this. In Jesus christ name go back to hell and never come back.
It sucks that it even needs promotion.
Live and let live and DON’T BE A RAT !!
See a tent? Leave it alone
Sleeping in their car? Leave it alone
See someone shoplifting? No you didn’t.
People are struggling
Shoplifting is dependent on the product being taken, and from where. Context matters for that. Stealing food or clothes or meds from Kroger? I saw nothing.
Especially now that so many people will be displaced. I don't think he's going to try to work on affordable housing or stopping price gouging on rents.
Socks.
Seriously, if you want to help the homeless, socks.
I made a man cry, as he peeled off his socks that were crusted to his feet, by giving him a pair of fleece socks I get every year for Christmas and never wear.
A good quality sleeping bag works wonders too, especially if you live in a climate where it gets cold in the winter.
Also, if you’re able to afford it, you can gift Planet Fitness memberships to people, just pay for a year up front and they have access to a hot shower and WiFi.
Cities leaders and the government do nothing to help with the growing housing crisis in America, saying there just isn't enough money to help them. Then they get offended by homeless people existing near them and somehow find the funds for police to forcibly move them to be someone elses problem.
Homelessness is really one of my buttons. I feel that people are being shamed for being homeless, which is very rarely their choice. In England, with extortionate property prices and rents, homelessness will continue to rise, with very little being done about it by the state. Thanks for sharing 😊
The council of the area and the surrounding area where I live has put laws in place to make it harder for our homeless population.
It's made it harder for support services (food and housing support) to now tend to these communities because they were forced to leave their community.
You should never tell someone to take down their tent unless you have a safe, affordable apartment for them to move to, and you should have that to start with. This is the 21st goddamn century. Our package delivery and cell phone guys have frickin spaceships.
i've been homeless. and i had a decent job, just not enough to afford a place on my own and i had to live in my van for a few months. not an addict or anything that would lead people to say "OH THATS WHY." it was just lack of affordable housing. it can happen to ANYONE.
It’s getting worse. There needed to be a federal emergency response to this problem a long time ago. There are many working people who are priced out of the insane cost of housing, being priced out of survival, while the billionaire psychopaths and private equity firms extract all of the wealth.
As a former resident of San Jose one of the things I noticed about the un-housed population is that they're not all jobless drug addicts. Many of them are in fact employed. But they can not afford housing+commute to their job.
The problem is not the people.
The problem is the system.
Yep. I have known many people who lived in their car and did everything right. I see it every night when i drive to my night job, women who are grandmother-age neatly folding their clothes into their suitcases. It is the system.
Agreed.
In the 1950s (?) taxes on corporate profits used to be like 95%. Corps used to do everything possible to avoid it: product research, better paying jobs, even lower prices.
Then Reagan came along and removed that.
No, make laws that force them to pay theirs. If it happened all services could be paid for. No one would be homeless except by choice. I love how the right tries to say an increase of employees at the IRS would bang the lower and working classes. Thats not where the money is and makes no sense.
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I drive a semi, I have interacted with TONS of elderly drivers who tell me they 'came out of retirement to help a friend out'..... being a yard jockey for his personal mega corporation??
I always tell them 'aw, that was nice of ya!' & But wow! Holy shit you're right!
There is a multitude of reasons it happens. Somwtimes one life disaster is what sends you to the hole. We need to be addressing homelessness for what it is.
People in poverty have been scapegoated from the beginning. United we stand
The End
Global free trade has resulted in the most dramatic reduction in extreme poverty in the entire history of civilization.
But then again it could be easier to get blood from a stone than from those damned tax evaders.
Treatment and rehabilitation programs are more effective at reducing homelessness (and state costs) but are often criticized as being "soft on crime" and a political liability.
https://youtu.be/MXsZSWWvmIM?si=6OUtGSUaZC5x4bX4
Those laws exist to harm people. If they were truly about protecting people, they would be consistent with other food safety laws and have an easy path to compliance.
"Do you want to be in a subcommittee to fix homelessness?"
"Yes! Here's a list of things you can do"
"Naa, we're not going any of that. Sorry city voters, we tried everything"
...like this?
I can’t stand that man
He himself on camera was shown clearing out homeless encampments.
And people gonna DIE.
then found out there are 1500 parks in ontario with this situation
its -20 tonight and they are all still there
grateful to have housing
The wind is what truly hurts
Our new shadow president Elon is a Marvel arch villain.
This is not progress—it’s inhumanity. #EndHomelessness
Ives seen wonderful people who volunteer time and supplies to build small houses to house the homeless.
The crime is that TPTB doesn’t give two shits about them.
The fact that people defend this pisses me off to no end. 🤬
"I'm so sorry you have to stand while you wait for the bus because this HUMAN BEING with no house is so desperate for a place to sleep that a cold metal bench looks good."
The lack of empathy is astounding.
We sorta did that once. Our town let the community take an abandoned WWII barracks, fix it up & use it as a haunted house one year. Dozens of people put like a week’s worth of work cleaning & repairing the place & it was -awesome-.
-PC
-wi-fi
-dry place to sleep in
I'm like a snake🐍
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-housing/human-right-adequate-housing
It was not really a popular revolution, it was just anti-absolutism
Personally: 1961 International Harvester Scout
This is a conundrum.
P.S. I know people try to find alternative terminology for homeless people, but I like homeless people because you get to work PEOPLE into it. All the alternate names dehumanize the folks IMHO.
For example "the unhoused".
"You can't just quietly wipe out an entire tent city...
Then watch 'It's A Wonderful Life' on TV!"
And oh how true Larson's words are.
https://gofund.me/a1b8ca58
Encampments are not safe or sanitary. These people need to have a roof over their heads, hot meals, restrooms and most important, guidance to solve their problems long term.
Except Joel Osteen. He is a for profit, charlatan ministry, yet many think he is the symbol for Christianity.
Won't you think of the billionaires?!
The point is to 100% kill homeless people… anything short of the same for corrupt politicians and CEOs lead to corruption and deaths of innocent people.
#DeathToOligarchy #CEOs
This is how it should work
Live and let live and DON’T BE A RAT !!
See a tent? Leave it alone
Sleeping in their car? Leave it alone
See someone shoplifting? No you didn’t.
People are struggling
Seriously, if you want to help the homeless, socks.
I made a man cry, as he peeled off his socks that were crusted to his feet, by giving him a pair of fleece socks I get every year for Christmas and never wear.
Also, if you’re able to afford it, you can gift Planet Fitness memberships to people, just pay for a year up front and they have access to a hot shower and WiFi.
It's made it harder for support services (food and housing support) to now tend to these communities because they were forced to leave their community.
The problem is not the people.
The problem is the system.
In the 1950s (?) taxes on corporate profits used to be like 95%. Corps used to do everything possible to avoid it: product research, better paying jobs, even lower prices.
Then Reagan came along and removed that.