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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by ithilglin909 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:02PM (#17980833)
I agree that both are problems worth solving, but one is pretty obviously a more urgent public health problem, and unfortunately, the more difficult one to solve.

When people are talking about Seattle's worsening homeless problem, they're talking about the presence of needles and fecal material on the sidewalks, and being harassed, and sometimes even attacked, by clearly mentally ill people, not about people living in trailers in non-urban areas.

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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by blablabla123 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @02:18PM (#17980973)
Maybe people also get mentally ill from being homeless. Then one gets physically ill from living in a physically hostile environment...
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by chongli on Thursday September 13, 2018 @08:10PM (#17983795)
I don't think the original cause matters so much. It's the cause that sustains their homelessness which needs to be addressed. People with strong support networks can bounce back from a lot of difficulties. It's the unlucky few who end up on the sidewalk in abject despair.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by WalterSear on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:50PM (#17981853)
I know I'd use lots of drugs.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by ryandrake on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:04PM (#17981423)
Maybe the people peacefully living in tents outside of town should instead start being more visible and getting in people’s faces, if that’s what it takes to be a priority.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by ithilglin909 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @03:25PM (#17981597)
We’re not talking about “getting in people faces”, we’re talking about a situation that is extremely unsafe, for everyone, homeless and non-homeless alike. If you’re suggesting more of that, there’s something seriously wrong with you.
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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by ryandrake on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:13PM (#17982099)
Wow, slow down on the insults, cowboy. All I’m saying is if you’re considering group A a more urgent priority for providing help to than group B, then you’re incintivizing group B to be more like group A.

Officials need to address the whole problem, not just the visible problem.

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Re:Amazon's Bezos Launches $2B Fund to Help the Homeless by ithilglin909 on Thursday September 13, 2018 @04:48PM (#17982423)
That's cowgirl to you.

So, if we prioritize, say, addiction treatment, more people will want to be addicts. Right.

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