Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. in 2023

Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by Podgajski on Saturday December 16, 2023 @09:55AM (#38664647)

https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/12/13/finlands-zero-homeless-...

Reading that article would be a start. They could also expand section 8 housing. They could also get rid of the countless nonprofits that siphon money away from the homeless. They could tie Social Security cola adjustments more towards housing and rental prices.

They Institute Medicare for all. They could ban the emptying of large amounts of houses by financial capital firms. Which they are already doing sort of. They could end Airbnb. They could ban making it illegal to sleep in a car or sleep on the street.

Or they can just really care.

I could go on, but again this is not a problem of not having the money, I mean we’re supporting two useless wars right now. This is a problem of people not caring or caring for the wrong things.

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by socrates137 on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:06AM (#38664727)

These policies are antithetical to everything the current GOP stands for. Voting for them will not address your issues. Just about everything you’ve said is considered opinions of “the left”. So, pushing the Democratic Party more to the left seems like the logical choice.

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by Podgajski on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:09AM (#38664754)

I’d rather suggest a third-party. Look what happened to Bernie Sanders when he tried to push it to the left. Both the Democrats and Republicans are beholden to corporate interest. I’m in no way going to vote for the Republican but I’m not going to vote for the Democrat either. If they want my vote, they have to earn my vote.

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by andrekandre on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:09AM (#38664752)

  > They Institute Medicare for all.

republicans?

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by Podgajski on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:11AM (#38664767)

Anyone, I don’t care if it’s Republicans or Democrats. Of course the Democrats are supposed to be the ones who would do this, but they don’t. Obama gave us a head fake of a public option that never happened. Instead what we got is force payments to private health insurance companies.

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by andrekandre on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:17AM (#38664809)

what i'm asking is (and i think others are too) is: is there any evidence that republicans would support or even propose anything like medicare for all?

for example, is there a draft bill from republicans for such a thing? etc

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by huytersd on Saturday December 16, 2023 @10:41AM (#38664994)

So the exact opposite of everything the GOP stands for.

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by Podgajski on Saturday December 16, 2023 @11:02AM (#38665185)

It’s the exact opposite of what the Democrats stand for either. I mean they talk like they stand for it but when they’re in power, they do nothing.

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Re:Homelessness reaches highest reported level in the U.S. i... by huytersd on Saturday December 16, 2023 @05:14PM (#38668248)

Yeah they’re not going to give free money to everyone. With the GOP in power you won’t be sleeping in your car, you’ll be in jail because that’s more aligned with their policies.

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