The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest Cities

Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:40PM (#18499562)

It's a bit more than that. It's also a mindset that, yes, we really will give real money and effort to help people.

A government agency could eventually build the social infrastructure (though they might make a mess of it). But building the consensus that we're going to solve this problem, even if it costs us a lot is... difficult. As you said, probably not reproduceable elsewhere.

I'm a non-Mormon living in Utah. I don't praise the Mormon Church very often. But on this I think they have done well, to have the desire and willpower to address the issue.

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Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest... by DoreenMichele on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @08:58PM (#18499636)

Thanks.

Though, to my mind, the willpower and desire is part and parcel of what I am talking about when I say social infrastructure. That sense of community and social responsibility etc is something we tend to see closely tied to religious groups and tend to not see to that degree for, say, government run social programs.

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Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest... by AnimalMuppet on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @10:18PM (#18499920)

Ah, I see. Then government almost certainly cannot create that social infrastructure. But if it already exists (Utah and Sweden, for example), then it makes it a lot easier for the government to address this kind of problem.

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