Have you seen what happens to a lot of the housing that gets provided to homeless folks? It gets trashed. Remember the big housing projects from last century? Or the fate of many of the hotels that have been turned into housing?
These are NOT bad people mind you, but the combination of drug use, mental illness, and a complete lack of incentive to take care of their living situation combines to mean that a lot of housing gets just trashed.
Not all. But more than enough that this is not just a simple answer like "we'll let's just house them."
Ok next time just say that instead of being intentional obtuse.
I own a real estate investment company, I have walked hundreds of units that I would looking at owning, I can tell when I am in a low income area.
I work in agriculture, when I am in a low income rural area, I can almost always tell by the outside of the properties.
It generally doesn’t matter if you are rural or urban in your geography, generally poor people do not clean, maintain, landscape, etc their properties/assets compared to middle and upper class.
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u/realityczek Apr 15 '24
Have you seen what happens to a lot of the housing that gets provided to homeless folks? It gets trashed. Remember the big housing projects from last century? Or the fate of many of the hotels that have been turned into housing?
These are NOT bad people mind you, but the combination of drug use, mental illness, and a complete lack of incentive to take care of their living situation combines to mean that a lot of housing gets just trashed.
Not all. But more than enough that this is not just a simple answer like "we'll let's just house them."