Re:Los Angeles is spending up to $837k to house a single hom...
by vkou on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:04PM
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> I think that the burden ought to fall not only on King County voters, but on the WA & Fed. gov't to an extent.
I mean, yes, it's obviously unsustainable for the rest of the state/country to dump all its problems onto a few coastal cities. But lack of state/federal support is not a problem that KC can solve anytime soon. It can only push on the parts that it can solve.
> The failing in this case is that there's no guarantee that anyone would remain in such a facility against their will,
We're talking past eachother, here. It sounds like you're saying there's no point to building facilities because we don't want to compel people to live in them. I'm saying that it's unconscionable to compel people to live in facilities that, well, don't exist.
I postulate that if facilities existed, a lot of people who oppose criminalizing homelessness as of 2022 would find mandating them a reasonable compromise... If the facilities were actually better for homeless people than tent cities. It's a very low bar that we are currently failing to meet.
I mean, yes, it's obviously unsustainable for the rest of the state/country to dump all its problems onto a few coastal cities. But lack of state/federal support is not a problem that KC can solve anytime soon. It can only push on the parts that it can solve.
> The failing in this case is that there's no guarantee that anyone would remain in such a facility against their will,
We're talking past eachother, here. It sounds like you're saying there's no point to building facilities because we don't want to compel people to live in them. I'm saying that it's unconscionable to compel people to live in facilities that, well, don't exist.
I postulate that if facilities existed, a lot of people who oppose criminalizing homelessness as of 2022 would find mandating them a reasonable compromise... If the facilities were actually better for homeless people than tent cities. It's a very low bar that we are currently failing to meet.