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Re:Houston moved 25k people from the streets into homes of t... by pessimizer on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:15PM (#31745442)
You wouldn't be able to tell from the Mail, which according to the url originally headlined the story something like "San Francisco homeless man says he gets paid $620 a month."

Imagine writing a story like that, adding a dozen pictures of random homeless people looking homeless and paragraphs of copy about Biden buying people crack pipes, but not bothering to either check out the claim or to list the sources of the funds, even if only to shame them.

edit: ah, 100% based on some reactionary twitter poster who interviewed the first homeless guy he saw, and must be too lazy to follow up on anything.

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Re:Houston moved 25k people from the streets into homes of t... by olivermarks on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @04:37PM (#31745716)
I think the Mail has picked up on Shellenberger's excellent reporting and twisted it for political and eyeball view reasons. He is most certainly not 'a reactionary twitter poster'. I just voted for him as CA governor as he has some excellent solutions, notably 'Cal Psych'. Shellenberger was obliterated by the Newsom money machine sadly. Read his book and twitter, he is a superstar.
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