this is a rant just a warning

Im a case manager that helps homeless vets get long term housing and there’s something called permanent supportive housing. they want me document to show there was no gaps in their time being homeless (its a 1 year minimum) or to show 4 times (lapses) becoming homeless. its documented by having providers give them services (documented on a homeless data base) or have an observation of their living situation that got noted etc.

fucking bullshit that they can’t accidentally give someone who was only homeless 11 months or who was homeless 11 months housed 1 month but became homeless again. this is infuriating lmao ughhhhh why cant we just give people homes fuck

  • redthebaron [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    why cant we just give people homes fuck

    so like there is this thing called the housing market and it needs housing to seem like a finite resource so it can continue to profit even though there is like enough housing for everyone but they keep those empty for speculation, also, i personally think that the leaving the homeless on the streets is kinda of a capitalist trap because they want you to see them suffer, so you keep working, because you know what happens if you fail, they are the constant reminder on the streets that if you fail, there still a bigger suffering awaiting you, to be destitute and hungry on the streets like them. *also not trying to explain this to you, just joining the rant with my personal gripes with the housing market

    • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      matt said on his stream that thats the capitalist nightmare they want to hang over your head because its that miserable and trauma inducing so i agree that its a trap on purpose

      • redthebaron [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        matt is way more well read than me and you could not have a better nightmare to loom over every worker than to know that a single bad month could make you live in the streets no bed, no food, nothing to help you get out of this situation in cities that are designed around making you have the least comfort possible if you are in this situation

        • ComradeMikey [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          the shit i hear second hand from my clients is extremely gut wrenchingly evil like seriously. anyone who says they need to just work harder or whatever is so beyond out of touch i want then to live 12 hours in their shoes and see how they feel

      • redthebaron [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        oh yeah he was meaning more scabs than homeless people on that one, but yeah that is same logic, fucking marx somehow just got to every single conclusion i could ever have before i was born can't believe this shit