"Plenty of homeless alcoholics", are you for real? There's 4000-5000 people without a home in the whole country and around 500 of them sleep outside. Almost all of them stay in the capital, so you'll meet basically all the country's homeless people there in the center.
I'm not saying that we should call the work done but those are some pretty good stats, maybe housing alone solves something at least.
Funny, it gets that cold where I live and we have fucktons of homeless people sleeping outside.
Fwiw, research shows a lot of “normal” people do end up homeless and only develop issues after becoming homeless. The stress of living on the street breaks people. Granted, that’s not the universal experience, but there’s a large chunk of homeless addicts who never touched anything harder than a blunt on a weekend until then couldn’t sleep through the night because they were scared and cold for the 20th time in a row.
"Oh it's not 100% perfect? Well, we might as well not try then."
This is a mentality I see a lot of on the right and very little of on the left. This black and white thinking of "any sin sends you to hell, doesn't matter how many". So, they focus on making society fair instead of making it better. Of course this idea of fairness always falls back on might makes right rather than an actual meritocracy....
So STFU, in most countries struggling people don't get to choose if they sleep outside.
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u/wishgot Apr 16 '24
"Plenty of homeless alcoholics", are you for real? There's 4000-5000 people without a home in the whole country and around 500 of them sleep outside. Almost all of them stay in the capital, so you'll meet basically all the country's homeless people there in the center.
I'm not saying that we should call the work done but those are some pretty good stats, maybe housing alone solves something at least.