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Can a gay kid who is kicked out of their home find housing in the US?
"What about the US" aka the mating call of the hexbear
At a practical level, is there any country you think is doing a good job in general?
Ooh, answering questions with a question! He’s good.
Not being threatened with homelessmess would have helped me infinitely more than the right to be married.
I’m gay and housing is just as hard to find for me as it is for my straight friends. Housing in the United States is prohibitively expensive, even/especially for renters depending on the area. This comparison was flawed to begin with, but that’s not surprising considering it’s the argumentative equivalent of a “no u”. Die on a better hill.
Wouldn't that also apply to a gay kid in china? I somehow doubt they just give away free housing to people.
China is not perfect on the matter of right-to-housing, but it is very good. Everyone has a right to have some kind of housing unit, though they don't necessarily (and in fact, I think usually don't) "own" it and family homes are counted if the kid isn't formally disowned. A very large number of the homeless population in China are "itinerant homeless," those who do have a family home but have moved elsewhere and aren't paying rent for an apartment (usually due to poverty, and therefore may live on the street) in order to try to get a job in the city with which to support themselves and possibly the rest of their family, who are usually back home in some rural area. This is very different from what homelessness typically looks like in the US, though it happens here too.
If a child is not formally disowned but is nonetheless forced out by their family, then it's effectively a matter of child abuse to be handled by the appropriate government organization once it is discovered/reported, and either the family recants or they formally disown the child. If they are formally disowned, they are entitled to shelter.
Though not the same system by any means, I think the DPRK's law on this subject is similar, though it's much easier for poor families (and kids therein) to fall through the cracks, meaning that you are more likely* to find a homeless queer kid there as a consequence.
*on a per-capita level