Q: —“What’s your solution to homelessness if you don’t mind me asking?”— If

Q: —“What’s your solution to homelessness if you don’t mind me asking?”—

If they desire to be homeless then there is no problem of homelessness. There is merely a problem of the maximum tolerance for care and feeding of them, and a (visious) prohibition on the homeless’ abuse of the charity of others.

If they do not desire to be homeless, then we are failing to devote temporary resources to people in need.

From what I can gather there is no homeless problem. We have a serious schizophrenia problem. We have a serious drug and alcohol problem. We have a serious unemployability problem (because of declining demand for work by underclasses). And we have a moderate low income housing program because we will not police them severely enough that they are preferable to the relative safety of the streets.

The primary reason people like to be homeless is socialization unavailable to them otherwise, and lack of criticism in a dynamic environment where social ostracization and pressure would give them negative feedback constantly otherwise.

One of the values of being homeless is the constant stream of public resources devoted to providing for you in times of need.

But the central problem is that we do not create and strictly police ‘villages’ for people who are merely unfortunate but well behaved. We no longer put the vast number of schizophrenics in ‘prisons’. We no longer purge public parks and spaces of ‘vagrants’.

We no longer raise the cost of their behavior on parasites such that it is preferable to seek inexpensive housing and care over the terrorism of being prohibited from fouling private property and beloved commons.

So in my opinion there is no ‘homeless’ problem per se. ANd it’s just politicking by women who need an oxytocin fix by ruminating over it, and the failure to remove liberty from those who cannot make use of it without harm to others.