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The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.
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In case you ever need led hardproof that America is not a Christian Nation.
But the Church will help! Our doors are always open! With strings attached, of course.
Feels pretty spot on for the Christians in the church I went to as a child
For communities that do this, the goal is to…
A) Drive out the homeless so they go to other, more charitable communities, and become someone else’s problem, and then…
B) Point out the higher rate of homelessness (and higher taxes necessary to deal with it) in those other communities and say, “Look how awful those communities are!”
Or fuel the prison industrial complex sustaining a constant supply of slave labor and state funding for private prisons
Fucking conservatives
In true American fashion dating all the way back to its founding, you only matter if you own property.
Seems that way. Empowering local governments to determine legality will inevitably allow NIMBY to criminalize homelessness across the nation, with each city pointing fingers as the next.
you only matter if you own property.
While technically true… There is a difference between a guy owning a factory and a guy owning a home.
They are not the same lol
This is pedantic and totally irrelevant to the topic of homeless having no place to simply exist.
Unless of course you are trying to highlight the billions of unhoused factory owners?
unhoused factory owners
Are you counting the fact that Elon lives in a trailer down by the
riverlaunchpad?Point being “home owner” is a temporaly housed person ;)
You got own right property to be part of the right class.
Learn to read
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You’re not adding anything useful, insightful or relevant to the conversation. Just being pedantic so you can feel smug.
You can look at it like that…
My value add here is clarifying detail was that was lost in that statement.
I am not hurting the reader or the OP thesis, just adding to the body of work.
Yes. Homeless people are an underclass.
Many people are few pay checks away from being homeless
System works as intended
Time to camp on SCOTUS lawns.
How long until we get “government ran camps” to help us “solve” the homeless?
When will gen pop say it is enough ?
Asking for friend… History ain’t looking good folks.
Sometime between now and September, obviously.
The Bell Riots were supposed to result in things getting better. I don’t know that I see that happening in November regardless of who wins. It will either be worse or status quo.
I’m guessing the post-atomic horror of the pilot episode of TNG is more likely. I mean I guess both ended up happening, but the Bell Riots still apparently made things better.
Can we get a class action lawsuit to sue for housing? Isn’t this almost entrapment like if the government doesn’t supply space for people to sleep but the population is still growing and the border isn’t completely sealed(not my solution I want) then shouldn’t the government be forced to build new homes or at least bunkhouses?
I’d think that for a blanket no-homelessness policy to be even reasonably humane, each person would need a right of address, even a 50 sqft. parcel of public land in/by the town of choosing which they can call their domicile.
Could just show up to your town’s zoning board meetings and keep hammering them each and every time they turn down a residential permit application
I’m going to misuse a couple of lines from Star Trek: The Next Generation, but I still think they work. Just imagine Q is all homeless people, and not evil, and Worf is SCOTUS:
Q: What do I have to do to convince you that I’m human?
Worf: Die.
Think I will donate some money and my homemade scarfs to a shelter this weekend. Clearly our Christian government isnt going to help guess it is up to us atheists.
I mean the “justification” used by the Christians who vote for this kind of thing is that it would be under for the government to take money from people to help others, and it’s up to each individual with money to give freely to support the poor, or whatever.
That’s what they say out loud, anyway. So they can blame atheists for not giving freely. Never mind that they tend to give less, but
You probably don’t choose to be homeless, but you do choose where to put your tent.
Sleeping is a biological necessity. So is shitting. WHY CAN’T I SHIT WHEREVER I WANT?! America sucks.
So, where are they supposed to sleep? In a jail cell?
In the case of CA, these people are going to be given in shelter beds. (I know, it sounds counterintuitive to the ruling.)
The main reason CA brought the case is because they aren’t allowed force portions of their unhoused populations indoors. They can’t move a segment of the population unless there is enough space for the entire population.
So, if a county had beds for half of the unhoused population, and it wanted to bring half of them indoors, it couldn’t. It could only make moves once it had beds for all.
I’m sure some place will be shitty and will just throw people in jail, but the big west cost cities have a lot of unfilled shelter beds that they would like to fill.
And all that being said, a lot of these unhoused people are avoiding shelters for a reason. Being on the street is actually preferable to what people experience in some shelters. So, as much as Newsom will tell you that he wants to be compassionate and give people a bed, he’s not telling you that bed is next to a psycho that’s going to scream all night then assault someone.
Yep! That way they can be used for slave labor for the owner class.
At a far higher rate than actually employing them at the median income would be as well.
the median state spent $64,865 per prisoner for the year.
The only reason that companies want prison labor is because it is cheap for them since the taxpayers are subsidizing the labor costs.
Overall it would be cheaper for states to just pay the homeless the median income than to incarcerate them. A lower rate that could be described as a basic income that is implemented universally would go pretty far in both increasing the opportunities for the homeless to afford housing and reduce the chance of people from becoming homeless.
It’s that high to employ all the guards and construction and wardens and whatnot. A lot of hands are in that cookie jar.
See, this is the most frustrating part of the American homeless crisis. Literally the cheapest solution is to just build free housing.
The cheapest solution is to just fix the problem, but instead we choose to do more expensive things that don’t do anything to address the issue, but may possibly make it temporarily someone else’s problem.
Incarcerating them is a benefit for multiple terrible reasons!
- Cheap, state subsidized labor.
- Gets undesirables out of public spaces so fragile people don’t have to acknowledge their existence.
- Gives those in power ammunition in the form of incarceration rates for riling up the masses about ‘crime’.
- Gives undesirables a history of incarceration so they can be denied other things if they somehow get out of their situation.
- Gives undesirables a history of incarceration so they can be an easy suspect for criminal activity.
You don’t even have to build housing. The US has more vacant homes than it does homeless people.
As well as to extract tax money from the working class. As it makes more economic sense to house and rehabilitate a person then it does to put them in jail. But the jail tends to have more kickbacks for the owner class.
Yes, and without what meager belongings they had prior to arrest. Any changes of clothes, tent, coats, bicycle, all gone.
I’m seeing people who are very likely homeless walking down busy highways and even the interstate to get to the town where I live, presumably to go to the jobs they still have despite being “lazy homeless people.” Walking down them miles out of town. They must have to walk for 2 or 3 hours minimum just to get to work. It would take them 2 hours to get to the nearest bus stop from where I often see them walking (near a woods where they must be camping).
A significant number of them are Latino, and this town does not have a large native Latino population, making me think they are migrants who ended up homeless after hoping to come to America for a better life.
I assume Republicans think all of that is just fine.
This is the ground work to start mass deportation during project 2025 when Trump wins.
Oh lord, this is the worst news to come from this week.
If sleeping anywhere for someone without a permanent place to live is allowed to be made illegal, we should have rotating shifts to keep the Court majority awake in their homes so that they will have to flee to Harlan Crow’s yacht.
Oh lord, this is the worst news to come from this week.
It was a high bar, but they cleared it.
Needless to say there was fierce competition. The pity I feel for Americans is to a level I feel physically sick.
As an American a couple months out from not being able to pay housing costs, I appreciate the empathy. Sorry about the cultural exports that have been going north.
So Police patrol forcing homeless to drink strong coffee?
reminded me of
ID: comic showing a homeless person sleeping in a doorway when a cop comes and tells them it’s illegal to sleep in public. The homeless person replies saying they guess they’ll just go to a hotel tonight, or maybe their townhouse or the Hamptons, then make a mock call to “Smithers” saying their “super fun street sleeping holiday” is over and asking which mansion they should sleep in, as the cop thinks “next: outlaw sarcasm”
