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It's cute that you think they're trying to save money 😂

That's adorable. I assure you, it's actually quite profitable.

I seem to recall reading somewhere that some homeless people would commit crimes so that they would be arrested and get free food and shelter.

Although at least in prison, they'll at least get a chance to get some medical care. Housing them won't help there. This is why we need universal healthcare.

assuming this is talking about the US

Putting homeless people in labour camps and treating them like slaves is unethical,

But if you throw them in prison first...

Yes, but why would we dismantle our free slavery system? /S (but not really)

Yeah, but it’s where that money goes that matters.

Facts not every unhoused person wants to be housed. We need to address those issues as well if we want to confront the issue.

But does it make more profit for the shareholders?

Yeah, nah, didn't think so. Try again, bleeding heart liberal communist America hater!

Without the homeless who would the poor look down on. Raise them up and then you've got a large population at the bottom who might get a little squirrelly being at the bottom.

Its hard to find housing for non homeless at the moment... When is the government going to start incentivizing starter homes?

prison labor

Yes but then we don't get to punish and control them for being a nuisance. Do you really think we actually want to resolve the issue and improve people's lives? Get your head out of your ass.

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The types of homeless people who are best helped by "housing first" type aid are not the same ones getting arrested/going to prison. Homeless people aren't some big monolithic group you can throw one solution at and have it work...

Even if you're going to overly simplify things you'd at the very least have two groups; the "entrenched" group (more visible and what people think of when talking about homelessness), and "invisible" group (the ones where the factors causing their homelessness are mostly financial).

Only because prison is privatized. Gulags are cheap as hell!

The cruelty is the point, they should be punished for their lowlyness.

If we house them do they suddenly become not mentally ill? That's a huge problem in the homeless community alongside drug addiction. We need to house them in mental institutions and rehab centers.

Just do what my town does. Pay to put them in a hotel where it's $100 a night for tax payers, they don't get a kitchen or space, but at least it doesn't look like we're giving free homes to them!

It's not always the case of a bed existing, in NYC a lot of people would rather sleep on the street because the shelters are often unsafe or unsanitary. That's excluding people who have psychological issues who don't want to enter into the shelter system for different reasons.

Yes yes, but then they would have freedome! And worse, I would have to see them!

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But we won't get our free slaves that way, would we? /s

There are many more problems homeless have than not owning a home. Just providing shelter they can call home doesn't solve the rest.

It costs even less to do nothing...

What happens to money when you pay for that cost? Where does it go? Think harder