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[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works -5 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I mean it's kind of a scarcity thing. Resources aren't infinite. I have no problem with letting people have nice things and would certainly want minimums to be pretty decent, but when you're getting people off the street or something then efficiency means lives saved.

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I agree!

Did you know that in the USA more buildings are vacant than there are homeless people? So the amount of housing that needs to be built is exactly zero. It' s not an amount of resources problem, it's an allocation of resources problem.

[–] PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works -4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It is still a resource problem. There's a reason NIMBYs exist. Homeless populations have substance, legal and mental issues. The property is pretty much a write off the moment you hand it over.

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