• surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    Then present your data. Hell, publish your data. If you know better than the experts at HUD, and can prove it, it should be quite the boon to your career.

    But you’re not wrong that band-aids for systemic problems are much more expensive than solving them.

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      21 hours ago

      Most free housing doesnt allow drugs, which is the main problem homeless people have with living in them.

      Then you have the general maintenance issues, fire risk, nimbyism. Is it really that simple?

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        20 hours ago

        You’re perpetuating capitalist propaganda. Most homeless people do not have a drug problem. At least half of homeless people in the US are employed.

        It’s not a drug problem. It’s an unaffordable housing problem.

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          19 hours ago

          Ah, that could very well be true, we really printed a lot of money during Covid. In Canada the government is already buying 50% of all mortgage bonds, inflating the debt people can take in order to juice home prices.