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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by dkfk on Monday June 21, 2021 @01:16AM (#27576517)
“A fair bit of support and free services” != a home, so it should be unsurprising that the homeless remain. Getting a job that can afford a home is hard enough if you already have a home. Without a home at all, getting a job is just unrealistic.

You can say all you want about Castro, but he did in fact eliminate homelessness in Cuba.

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Re:Policies that make the poor less poor by nucleardog on Monday June 21, 2021 @02:23AM (#27576795)
> “A fair bit of support and free services” != a home

The city provides studio apartments with "daily meals, laundry, showers, housing application assistance, community and health service referrals, skills building, relationship building, connection to volunteer and employment opportunities, and other support services".

It's not a home, but it certainly means that the people availing themselves fully of the opportunities presented to them aren't unwelcome on transit because of their inability to maintain basic hygiene.

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