• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Government can’t do that job either. We already have homeless shelters. I don’t know why people talk like this is a new idea. We have homeless shelters in our society. They’re government funded in some cases, or church-funded in other cases.

    We still have homeless people. We do provide free shelter and food to people. And we still have people sleeping on the street.

    • cricket97@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You aren’t allowed to do drugs in homeless shelters which is why a lot of homeless people don’t use them.

      • Uranium3006@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        we need places to accommodate them. like how restaurants used to have smoking sections. there should also be access to drug abuse healthcare with no mandate and allow long term residency in shelters, including the ability to receive mail and use it as a legal address for ID documents and employment. if we did all that we could see a fraction of them, perhaps even a large fraction, eventually getting back on their feet and out of the system.

    • BURN@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The governments barely do anything, in general not putting more than a token effort into helping.

      There’s never enough support for the increasing number of homeless people.