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Portland to evict nearly 100 shelter residents who are ‘unwilling to engage’
(www.oregonlive.com)
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Housing first just concentrates and distills the underlying problems that led to homelessness in the first place.
You have drug addicted and mentally ill people housed, but they'll never be functional.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5610885-housing-first-policy-failure/
So? Not everyone is capable of, wants to, or needs to function in society. They’re still people who shouldn’t be turned away if we can afford to help them. If we became a truly impoverished nation that couldn’t support everyone, I can understand prioritizing the cooperative, but if we don’t have to live by the rules of the jungle, why would we lower ourselves by doing so?
Things cost money. If you want things like food and housing, you have to function in society.
Agreed that everyone should get the care they need, and that means universal health care + mental health care + addiction treatment.
But, again, the expectation there is that everyone contributes and everyone benefits.
If society can't care for the people that can't care for themselves, what the fuck is even the point?
Welcome to America! Where we can't have nice things because the wrong (read BROWN) people might get them too!
Example:
https://www.history.com/articles/gi-bill-black-wwii-veterans-benefits
If you're being sarcastic or satirical, that's not coming across in your previous comments.