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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 day ago (4 children)

$20 billion

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) estimates that it would cost $20 billion to end homelessness.

You can easily get the rest from just pulling from the military or even better seizing the obscene wealth of the billionaire class and fix this overnight but noooooooooo billion dollar vanity projects.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Off-topic, but that number is one of the things that made/makes me absolutely hate the billionaires in this world. People like Bezos, Buffett, or Musk could end homelessness or world hunger tomorrow while not even really noticing the hit to their wealth, but they all choose instead to spend it on destroying the planet instead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

Homelessness and world hunger is the source of their power, they use it as leverage to force other people to enact their will. Ending hunger will diminish their power, and so they will never do it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Even ending homelessness for 1/20 people who are homeless would've been objectively better as a campaign strategy too

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

Nah it wouldn’t, like 95% of Americans give 0 fucks about the homeless

[–] [email protected] 38 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

first put every real estate developer and landlord into a camp or they will ~~start~~ increase arming domestic paramilitary death squads

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago

At least my billion dollar vanity project, building Castle Von ThunderCastle, would provide countless jobs and a place to live for all those willing to join my ruthless terrorist organization