I swear to God if we spent half the money we spend on ensuring homeless people do not inconvenience the public on housing then we could JUST FUCKING HOUSE THEM
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Michael Li (李之樸)
Regular sitting benches seem to have been replaced by “leaning benches” at the West 4th Street station - presumably to prevent homeless people from sleeping on them.
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This was in 2022, so the amount has probably gone up due to inflation, but probably not by much, c'mon man 😭
https://youtu.be/4ZxzBcxB7Zc?si=ik9uZ1GPsuP_uIEu
and if there aren't enough people in the country to do all of that, then we should teach more people to do it or bring people from elsewhere who would like to do it.
I've thought of everything my friend
but we start by providing what we can where we can and devoting significant investment in educational infrastructure and incentives for that work.
and I still bet you we come out ahead
For example, few office parks come with showers (and the plumbing that goes w/ that) or kitchens/appliances (and the wiring that goes w/ that).
You can't just put up cheap drywall in the open space and call it flats.
Oh, half, you just said. My bad. But at what MORAL cost ?!