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submitted 5 months ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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[-] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 11 points 5 months ago

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.
[-] lone_faerie 4 points 5 months ago

You don't even have to build housing. The US has more vacant homes than it does homeless people.

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