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Re:Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are le... by azinman2 on Saturday March 06, 2021 @09:47PM (#26372681)
> Instead of providing food and shelter to the poor, perhaps starting an infrastructure program to employ these people and fix the damn roads, they empower the poor to go rampage stores to survive.

We spend over a billion a year on the homeless. It’s an intractable problem, and the weather, social services, and accepting (of panhandling) population drives demand to locate here.

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Re:Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are le... by imtringued on Sunday March 07, 2021 @08:02AM (#26375528)
Yes it's intractable because having homeless people is considered more desirable than actually solving the underlying problems because it would hurt special interests.

The average SF resident loves having homeless people because of the secondary benefits that homelessness brings.

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Re:Californians aren’t leaving the state en masse but are le... by smaryjerry on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:25AM (#26376529)
Can’t tell if sarcastic or not. People literally do love the secondary benefit of saying they help the homeless, and politicians basically run on that. Obviously the parent comment saying demand is created was talking about homeless demand to travel to an area with better benefits and/or lesser enforcement of laws that homeless would break, like camping on sidewalks and using the world as the toilet.
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