I definitely ride the middle pretty hard on these issues. I have tons of sympathy for people that can't afford housing, have difficulty getting jobs, have physical and/or mental issues that they can't afford to treat or are untreatable. I also sympathize with hard-working people that don't want to trip over people sleeping on the street, step in human shit; or get harassed, robbed, or worse by meth heads.
I've got no idea what the right answer is. The wealth gap has widened significantly and we don't have the level of social safety nets that most other western countries have. We don't have the same level of familial shared housing/responsibility that people in or from Asian countries have.
There's no city or state in the country that doesn't have people suffering like this, but there are absolutely places that won't tolerate it. Unfortunately that only pushes the problem somewhere else. It doesn't fix anything or anyone.
jeebuzpwnz t1_iunacib wrote
Reply to Homeless People in Lancaster CA Are Being Forced to Live in the Desert by xCeladon
I definitely ride the middle pretty hard on these issues. I have tons of sympathy for people that can't afford housing, have difficulty getting jobs, have physical and/or mental issues that they can't afford to treat or are untreatable. I also sympathize with hard-working people that don't want to trip over people sleeping on the street, step in human shit; or get harassed, robbed, or worse by meth heads.
I've got no idea what the right answer is. The wealth gap has widened significantly and we don't have the level of social safety nets that most other western countries have. We don't have the same level of familial shared housing/responsibility that people in or from Asian countries have.
There's no city or state in the country that doesn't have people suffering like this, but there are absolutely places that won't tolerate it. Unfortunately that only pushes the problem somewhere else. It doesn't fix anything or anyone.