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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by eanzenberg on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:31PM (#23083180)
Outlaw street-level drug use.
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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by kube-system on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:42PM (#23083297)
I guess prisoners technically aren't homeless.
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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by aaomidi on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:58PM (#23083501)
And how does that help? You're just sending anyone undesirable to prison?

How about, and this is a wild idea, we just require housing to be a natural right and we give people that?

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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by ueueshitashita on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @03:23PM (#23083792)
> we just require housing to be a natural right and we give people that?

Who is "we" in this context?

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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by aaomidi on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:00PM (#23084263)
People who realize housing people is cheaper than jailing them.
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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by eanzenberg on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:06PM (#23084354)
How is it in any way cheaper. I mean yes, if you ship people to middle america it will be. But touting a "right" to housing in SF is preposterous, at $1000 / sq ft (and will only go up with more demand).
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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by kube-system on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @02:54PM (#23094890)
Jails are more expensive to construct, are staffed, and also take up space like other forms of real estate.
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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by ueueshitashita on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:19PM (#23084505)
What is stopping the group of people who realize this from housing people?
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Re:San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate by aaomidi on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @04:46PM (#23084854)
The fetishization of "law and justice" in the United States and the world?

As a species it seems we enjoy jailing the "undesirables" rather than tolerating them and understanding them.

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