Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost public transportation

Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by proc0 on Monday December 16, 2019 @05:20PM (#21808007)

It's so infuriating to see big cities completely incapable of dealing with homeless people as if they are delicate creatures that can't be touched, and then have the majority of people ignore them even though they are assholes that make a scene every single time. Most of these people act that way because no one has taught them any better and therefore they have no incentive to act otherwise.

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by jMyles on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:23PM (#21809897)

Having the spent almost the entire past 5 years living happily houseless, I need neither your judgment nor your support.

I do think you are being malicious, though, and I think you know that you are just totally incorrect.

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by proc0 on Monday December 16, 2019 @10:19PM (#21810208)

Sorry, didn't mean to be abrasive, was just responding to the general situation. I think we can't group all of them in one bucket, I understand some are older and/or disabled people etc., and are in a bad situation, but that's not the only bucket, is what I was trying to say.

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by proc0 on Monday December 16, 2019 @06:00PM (#21808465)

It actually sounds like you haven't met homeless people. I have lived in SF and LA for most of my life, and I can assure you, I know MANY homeless people PERSONALLY. What you are describing is how it used to be prior to 2010.

Right now there's rising population of relatively young, relatively healthy people who are choosing to make sacrifices. Sure it can be tough but you can't complain if you actually have options and your choice is to sacrifice some shelter for extra money. The problem is these places with homelessness crisis actually have law enforcement crisis and this increases the incentive for people to live on the sidewalk instead of moving to a cheaper city. There are hundreds of options of cheaper places to live. If you can work why choose to stay in a super expencive city that demands high skill labor?

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Re:Kansas City is first major city in U.S. to offer no-cost ... by gamblor956 on Monday December 16, 2019 @07:34PM (#21809251)

Ditto. The parent comment to yours ignores that a huge part of CA's homeless problem is that they aren't CA's homeless. They're the homeless problems of more than a dozen other states too selfish to take care of their own homeless.

CA doesn't do a great job of dealing with the homeless, but we'd have enough shelter beds for all of our own homeless if people from other states weren't taking those spots.

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