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US is on track to set record for homeless people with over 650K living on the streets
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2024
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Easy fix, barely an inconvenience: make it illegal
I think they just did that.
Don't worry the states are working on that as fast as they can. They're making it a civil fine to "camp" in the wrong spot. Then you also get relocated to a shelter that has a limit on what you can bring in, including a ban on animals. If you resist at any point you end up in prison. So you have to just take losing your only companion and half of your belongings in stride. Also though, if you go to prison you lose all of your stuff. So they release you thirty days later (in the blue states) and your penniless, your dog has hopefully been adopted by someone else, and you have no clothes to survive extreme weather or any other property you need to function. So you can either die in the middle of the night to cold weather or take up that drug dealer on his offer of employment. Which ends up with a larger prison sentence down the road.
The fact that people don't see this cycle is infuriating to me. All they see is a sidewalk that doesn't have tents anymore and they cheer. They don't care that they've permanently destroyed the lives of everyone who lived there.
There’s plenty of shelter space but you can’t do drugs there so people don’t go. But hey I guess you can use as much as you want in prison!
No there isn't actually. The recent SCOTUS case was literally repealing a past ruling that you couldn't do what I described above, until there was enough shelter space for all the homeless in your city/county/state.
So that's why enforcement suddenly got juiced. They no longer need a bed available to fuck your shit up.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
I've been homeless, and staying the fuck away from the shelters is how you stay safe.
I spent one night in one once, and promptly went back to looking for hidden little spots where no one would be able to see me.
Unless you are the crustiest of old homebums, shelters are where your shit gets stolen and you get stabbed if you make a fuss. Or raped.