News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet Union. Parent comment

Re:Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet ... by Kalium on Friday July 06, 2018 @12:13PM (#17472590)
You're right. Homeless is not an easy problem that can be solved with big dollops of cold, hard, cash.

Rather, tt's a trivial problem that can just be solved by throwing a lot of housing at it.

Incidentally, housing is the one thing that everywhere between Ocean Beach and Diridon are allergic to...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet ... by deadmetheny on Friday July 06, 2018 @01:44PM (#17473490)
Homelessness is not a trivial problem, full stop. There is no way around this. It can be lessened with extra housing for those who are only homeless because of cost of living, but that doesn't get to the root causes of what causes people to lack funds for housing and such.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Things That Happen in Silicon Valley and Also the Soviet ... by ShabbosGoy on Friday July 06, 2018 @02:29PM (#17473945)
It comes down to equality of outcome vs. equality of opportunity. Homelessness can be solved with the former, it’s just that everyone else will suffer as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]