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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by com2kid on Thursday March 30, 2023 @01:44AM (#35368561)
What that, obscenely slanted, first link doesn't mention, is that each year around 10k homeless people in Seattle get off the streets.

It isn't like that money is being flushed down a hole, results are being had on an individual basis, but for reasons that are nationwide in scope, the overall problem (# of homeless people on the streets of Seattle) isn't getting any better.

National problems require national solutions, but half the senate is perfectly happy to offload the cost of social ills onto coastal metros.

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Re:The Horrifying Epidemic of Teen-Age Fentanyl Deaths in a ... by seanmcdirmid on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:37AM (#35368891)
The chronic homeless cases (the ones that can’t recover quickly) eat up around 80% of that money, so it still isn’t that far off. The low hanging fruit cases just need housing, and aren’t going to destroy or use it to make meth, they don’t require anywhere bear $100k/year in services.
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