> ruined mostly because a shelter and various other supports opened up down the block, and kind of turned the area into a mini-Skid Row

That’s why I’m against social housing.

Inner city welfare/government housing aggregates all the homeless into one area where open air drug markets can flourish and other nefarious activities are normalized.

Low income people should instead move to the outskirts of big cities where the rent is more affordable and they are more spread out.

Except their jobs and the services they need are also more spread out. Plus their friends and family and further away. The result: now those people need cars and the benefit of any cost savings is lost. That's not to mention the other problems that come with increased automobile usage.

I'm sorry, it's just not that simple.

That’s the wealthy’s issue: Fund reliable, efficient, and safe mass transport.

I attribute most of todays problems to NIMBYism and highly-selective and classist—as in, target the ones without the funds to fight back—use of eminent domain.

That’s why it’s better to distribute and thin out social housing across every neighborhood, rather than concentrate them all in a handful of places.

It’s easy to police one or two “problem” residents and maybe some positive habits will rub off; likewise, ground the wealthier residents to reality.

There’s plenty of good, validated solutions out there, for instance heres something very effective which would cut drug related problems by over 50%: start enforcing death penalties on drug traffickers.

How giving them life sentence would be less efficient than a inefficient, error-prone practice of death penalty?

Different deterrent

Reddit-level answer.

Was trying to match the level of your reading comprehension

The last application of the death penalty in Canada was in 1962, it's been outlawed even in cases of treason since 1999. I'm very confident that no Canadian politician with any level of influence is looking to change that.

In the span of human existence, that is a very short time period

This applies to a lot of the things you take for granted today, like clean running water, electricity, and climate control.

Yes. What is your point?

We’ve done a lot of things relatively recently that are good and pointing at something as “only a temporary thing that we can revert” is not always a good mindset to have

El Salvador doesn't have the death penalty but their recent "tough on crime" measures have worked.

Yeah, really the intent was not to advocate for death penalty - but rather highlight that there are tools to fight these things, and getting tangled in endless root cause analysis isn’t needed to utilize them.

Your solution to people messing up a McDonald's is to have them murdered by the government? Did I get that right?

The people in the McDonalds are the victims. The people that would be executed are the dealers getting people addicted for their own profit.

Dealers don't get people addicted

They certainly do: https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3jkw/dealer-accused-of-giv...

Do you honestly believe anything approaching a majority of drug addicts are addicted because dealers are handing out free drugs everywhere?

Exactly. If this was a common occurrence it wouldn't be newsworthy

How is this validated?

Singapore, a nation with a populace of a bit north of 5 million and extremely strict drug laws, has a few thousand registered drug offenses per year.

Finland, a nation with roughly similar population size but very lax penalties in comparison, has roughly 10x the amount.

There's fucking insane

Where?

Typo. That's fucking insane. Death penalty for drug trafficking is fucking insane

All depends on your world view

How many innocent people are you okay with being executed as collateral damage?

> lack of God

There has never been one :)

Thereby confirming the lack of one.