Thread: Homelessness
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Old Posted Jan 24, 2022, 3:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Yuri View Post
The articles mentions that the city is planning to build tiny houses (18m², about 190 sqft) aimed to part of this public.

As homeless population has skyrocketed, according to city officials this measure is urgent as people that just hit the streets are easier to be "rehabilitated".
And there is the denial - people need to be "rehabilitated" not "treated" - Rehabilitated makes is sound like this is the undeserving poor, the able bodied who are not working through moral failures of their own ( think Cromwell ).

Treating the mental illness and substance abuse at the core of the problem is just too expensive. Easier to find a place to let them rot out of sight of the rest of us.
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