So fucking sick of people like this. They genuinely believe that every single homeless person in America is a hyper-visible, unmedicated schizophrenic who's too mentally ill to want to get off the street. Never mind that the vast majority are members of the working poor and live in cars, friends' places and transitional housing—doesn't get more invisible than that.
Universal housing would effectively solve the homelessness crisis and every counterargument is actually a supporting one if you have half more than half of a braincell. Yes, a lot of homeless people need additional (i.e. psychiatric) help, BUT THEY ALSO NEED HOUSING because poverty literally exacerbates mental illness. Yes, libraries shouldn't be treated as homeless shelters, which is WHY HOMELESS PEOPLE NEED HOUSING. Yes, a lot of people who're forced to live in squalor on a literal street corner smell, which is why THEY NEED HOUSING so they can have basic dignity and access to a shower.
I don't get these people. Like in their tiny mind they need to personally be friends with every homeless person to deem them worth helping.
Like you don't have to personally like people to believe they should have rights and protections.
Also it doesn't make any sense like they approach the problem with analysis at all. Even the most chronically homeless person is the result of the system failing allowing them to get into that position in the first place. Do they think some people wake up and think "I want to be a completely broken person living in constant danger on the streets"?
They aren’t interested in reality. They spend hours every day bitching about how SF is a liberal shithole where it’s illegal to be white because they are so completely unopposed in mainstream politics that even their imagined “””oppression””” is just being uncomfortable.
I don't understand it at all. I don't get why so many people have no compassion or concern for anyone they don't know personally. Like you'd think at least that extending that to humanity in a general sense would make sense because if everyone was better off your lvoed ones would be better off too, but apparently that's too much of a reach.