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Re:Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminal... by surement on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @10:53AM (#33164048)
> I’m much more concerned about mental health and access to short term housing

You should be more concerned about general restrictions on housing construction. Mental health is not magically better in Japan and yet we don't see this kind of vagrancy there. But they also don't have the kind of nimbyism that plagues American cities with "intractable" homelessness problems.

Re:Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminal... by moistly on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @05:49PM (#33169678)
What does Japan do with its addicts and mentally unstable?