The City of New Orleans just spent over 17 million dollars to remove less than 100 homeless people for a day. Just so some assholes can go watch a few guys smack each other on the ass and play with a leather ball. #FuckTheNFL
Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it. On a pre-dawn morning in January, state police and other agencies directed by the Louisiana governor, Jeff Landry, descended on homeless encampments throughout downtown New Orleans.
Yep, for one day, one fucking day, I could have lived off that for 8 to 10 years, others probably 5 years. For 17 million they could have bought an entire apartment complex and housed even more than 100 people permanently
I hate this fucking country I simply fucking hate it
Tiny homes are incredibly inefficient and impractical. There’s no reason the public can not afford to pay the rent on any of the million or so empty housing units that already exist.
As someone who has been homeless, most people don't realize just how close they are to losing everything. Homeless people need help, not harm, the current system is woefully inadequate. Altering benches to be impossible to sleep on doesn't help, it just removes something someone in need can rest on.
Removing the bench doesn't fix the fact that that person needs somewhere to sleep. Nobody *wants* to sleep on a fucking park bench if other options exist, anti-homeless architecture just means "we do not want you here, leave immediately or risk harm". People are not trash to be swept away.
Not to be contrary, but wouldn't building houses for the homeless make a significant change toward resolving homelessness and the housing crisis? Or am I missing something here?
Ok let’s say we build houses for every single person homeless at this moment and no homeless in the street. Now you have people struggling to stay above water and they see if they just lose it all and become homeless they get a free house built. So we just continue building free homes for people?
Quick PSA don’t fucking subscribe to any lists without vetting them yourself first. There are tons of bad actors who just stick people they got in a spat with once on there.
It'd be expensive or maybe like donation oriented but just be a pain to your governments and have benches bolted in the middle of the damn night!
Walk down from Coles to wait for an uber, pregnant lady with a kid waiting aswell, No chairs because "Oh no someone might be Using one at night time" 🙃
In 40+ years of housing advocacy, I’ve never seen ANYONE take up that cost savings. No matter how hard we fought. The population explosion of homeless people is the fault of all politicians. All. Of. Them.
Maybe @governor.ca.gov and @booker.senate.gov need to bring up the FACT that musk is involved with @boxabl.bsky.social and could probably get a "mass purchase discount" to match or undercut the $16k per unit that #Portland paid? 🤔🤨
Here’s where we diverge. Tiny homes ARE NOT a solution. They are inefficient and impractical. We have enough public money (well, had, probably) to rent apartments for every homeless person and family without having to build any new units. For every homeless person, there are 17 empty housing units.
If it was actually about money & cost savings, EVERY STATE would be housing the homeless & every politician would be overlooking any other obstacles the same way they overlook internal corruption on the Hill.
Thank you for that reference. I’ve been looking for the article that was published in the early 90’s on this. Of course, there’s no way to find it anymore.
- Erbschaftssteuerfreibetrag senken
- Grundstücke verknappen
- sozialen Wohnungsbau schleifen lassen
- Mietpreisbremse, die fast nur Einzelvermieter trifft
- Finanzämter, die bei Vermietung < regional üblicher Miete so richtig herumzicken.
I heard Costco is going up start building affordable houses over their stores, starting in LA as a model to see if it works . Haven’t fact checked it yet but love Costco
From what I understand the homeless prison camps are under construction. Too bad Newsome is in support of "debtors prisons". Wasn't it decided long ago that this is unethical & inhumane?
There are plenty of houses already. The commodification of housing has lead to the crisis. Housing needs to be treated as a necessity, and regulated, so that a person can only own 1 or 2 dwelling with a price capped, so that it doesn’t become another investment opportunity.
So like there would be designated addresses or whatnot that there is also a second agreement with the government. if a house is owned by a owner that does not live in there for an extended period of time as agreed upon purchase, a lien should be placed, or the house can be sold to avoid punishment.
Unfortunately this would be very vague and unenforceable. Since there's not a well defined legal entity of "the people" it can and will be abused to be snapped up by the rich again.
I guess the unsaid bit is that all of what I said depends on a clean government, which hasn't been clean.
I have been homeless before. I mean, "here's nothing asshole, best of luck." Generally, I considered benches off limits. Even if they were free, private and public police threw you off almost immediately. I've been removed from sleeping on a public bench at gunpoint before.
Portland opted in for "private police." They're notorious around the Pearl, where I often liked to crash because it had the advantage of a public toilet. But the private cops were mean. The public cops would at least nudge you awake and say "hey man, I'm sorry but.." the private cops kicked you.
And it doesn't have to be that big. Or better yet repurpose large buildings that are just sitting around abandoned. Or, if like in Alabama, repurpose all these damn prisons for the homeless
While nice in theory, homelessness is a problem with many nuances : elders, drug addicts, people falling behind on their financial obligations, broken people, etc. There is no one size fits all solution.
There are so many different reasons why people become homeless. Some even become homeless due to natural desaters.
And not two people have the same journey of unfortunate events.
Haha, love this comic! It's so on point about how we need to address homelessness with real solutions like housing, not just making public spaces hostile. It's like, come on, let's use our brains for good, not for making life harder for those who are already struggling.
Drugs are often a symptom of hopelessness, not a cause of homelessness. If we gave homeless people a future we'd see drug use plummet. Instead we've designed it as a vicious trap.
The idea of teeny tiny homes have worked well for homeless or "unhoused" individuals. One can not successfully work with someone toward goals until there is housing and food. Then once secured can move on to what the individual wants for themselves, and educating re addiction assist and medication.
The millions of square footage in abandoned businesses? All those buildings, plumbed and wired. All those empty office spaces in all those overbuilt now dead downtowns? All across America.
Well just giving them house isn't a good solution either. I seen it being tested 10 years ago and the results was the house getting ramsacked and sold anything that could be sold then they ran away to another city. I have to add they would have gotten a job too.
The housing situation also needs to be multilayered, with shelters as entry points and those who seem responsible enough can then upgrade to social apartments.
It’s not a one size fits all. But most civilized countries treat addictions as disease. Which means you get rehab covered by national insurance. Not sure about other places, but where I live you also get paid sick leave.
Naturally those that want to work or restart their life, they need to be given a second chance. Just that some of the homeless are drug addicted or fine with their current position of owning nothing.
typical corporate thinking. someone coming up with a practical solution will be argued until the solution is made unpracticable. the only workable solutions considered will be those that will grant the corps a monopoly, billions in uncontrolled revenue, and is realistically unworkable.
I kid you not, a couple years ago I got a letter in the mail that was sent out to all the houses in my area because a Karen was mad about a potential apartment complex being built.
One snippet: "Apartments invite those with a history of homelessness"
"Best I can do is a flange of metal that isn't an armrest, isnt a spike, but absolutely will get caught on anything from your coat to your keys to your purse to your digits"
One of my local small business Plazas recently started blasting music at all hours of the day, and i only noticed because I cut through the Plaza during a night jog, 10:30 at night speakers were blaring music and i had no idea why until I also noticed there aren't any benches
Or the best one... just give them a monthly allowance. Ironic that it is the single societal issue that can be 45% solved by literally only giving them money. Almost pays for itself since it saves money on all other homelessness related services as well.
Just voicing money doesn't help. I was homeless, money doesn't help, the biggest issue with homelessness is the person is typically not able to budget, that are broke, not just poor. Food stamps and housing vouchers work because the money never crosses the broken hand.
That is for a specific group of homeless people, yes giving a dollar adds a dollar, but a person who is broke will use money in ways that resulted in homelessness. Be that drugs, the new iPhone, or buying a car they can't afford and put them deeper into debt.
I got out of homelessness, but not by being handed cash, I've been given cash and it just never worked,
I was saved by an elderly man that took me in for 8 months, he let me stay with him and I offered to help him with things he couldn't do as an elderly man. He got me on my feet
I think the same is happening in KC. (2 states - more focus on the Misouri side of state line) It seems to be more in urban & urban adjacent areas. (Not close at all to the high $ suburbs of JO County Kansas, North KC Missouri, or Lee’s Summit - - the $$ areas)
It's intentional, the way we treat the homeless is a threat; this is what will happen to you if you step out of line, keep your head down and work yourself to death or else.
I find it interesting that america can't solve homelessness. They seem to have the problem, and instead of fixing it, they blame it on immigration thinking we have more immigrants than America people. Which is not true.
The thing is, they don't want to solve it. If they truly wanted to, they could, but the threat of homelessness keeps the worker population in line. You can't properly fight for better pay and rights when you risk homelessness...
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Source: the guardian
The residents of the US can't do math!
I hate this fucking country I simply fucking hate it
Blue States: “Let’s offer them subsidized housing.”
Confederate States: “Let’s put them in prisons, or mass graves.”
Compromise: “Ok. Let’s spend $170,000 per person to forcibly shuffle them around for one day.”
Homelessness is a policy choice and both major parties agree on it.
Lol 😆
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_homeless_population
Walk down from Coles to wait for an uber, pregnant lady with a kid waiting aswell, No chairs because "Oh no someone might be Using one at night time" 🙃
Especially with all the empty buildings in this crap country
https://www.npr.org/2015/12/10/459100751/utah-reduced-chronic-homelessness-by-91-percent-heres-how
- Erbschaftssteuerfreibetrag senken
- Grundstücke verknappen
- sozialen Wohnungsbau schleifen lassen
- Mietpreisbremse, die fast nur Einzelvermieter trifft
- Finanzämter, die bei Vermietung < regional üblicher Miete so richtig herumzicken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQWWhJPseDk&ab_channel=HarryMcKenzie
I guess the unsaid bit is that all of what I said depends on a clean government, which hasn't been clean.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/rehab-guide/addiction-statistics-demographics/homeless
And not two people have the same journey of unfortunate events.
this shit came before the MLG era
Nesting pods.
And a ton of people I see outside parks asking for spare change is just old people who can no longer work and have no one to turn to.
You need a home to have an ID, and you need ID to get most jobs.
More fear
More profit
Absolutely insane
It sure would help if they opened up the room.
One snippet: "Apartments invite those with a history of homelessness"
WHAT DO YOU THINK THE APARTMENTS DO KAREN
https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2023/sep/27/could-giving-cash-to-the-homeless-reduce-the-problem/#:~:text=A%20recent%20study%20out%20of,and%20save%20the%20government%20money.
I was saved by an elderly man that took me in for 8 months, he let me stay with him and I offered to help him with things he couldn't do as an elderly man. He got me on my feet
#STABLIZATION