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Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock by kadabra9 on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:03PM (#32786669)
SF has spent over $3B on the homeless over the last 5 years, and the pop continues to skyrocket along with rampant crime and drug use. Money isn’t the issue, at least in this case
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Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock by MonkeyMalarky on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:11PM (#32786702)
The point about closing institutions because of abuse is not wrong. The solution isn't to close them and push the mentally ill out on the street, it's fix the institutions!
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Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock by throwaway102233 on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:16PM (#32786727)
^ 100% agree, some mentally ill people just need to be in an institution, where they can either get the care and treatment they need - and hopefully be cured and become a functional member of society - or at least where the amount of harm they are able to cause to themselves (and society) can be minimised.
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Re:A legal fund to sue SF over housing deadlock by uoaei on Friday September 09, 2022 @09:30PM (#32786806)
Giving money to bureaucracies whose nominal mission is to serve the homeless is not the same as giving money to the homeless.
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