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Affordable housing is the solution to homelessness, not criminalization
The Hill ^ | 04/12/2024 | MARGOT KUSHEL AND GREGG COLBURN

Posted on 04/12/2024 7:38:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this month in Grants Pass v. Johnson, which focuses on whether a local government can make it a crime to live outside when adequate shelter is not available.       

This case has resulted in an inaccurate and harmful framing of homelessness by suggesting that there are only two potential outcomes: Either arrest those who are unhoused or homelessness will become an inevitable and permanent fixture of the urban landscape.    

But there is a third path: providing subsidized housing with services to people experiencing homelessness.   

Too often, policymakers ignore the obvious solution to homelessness — housing — in favor of immediate (and generally ineffective) responses, such as criminalization. Forced displacements and criminalization move people from one place to another, increasing their trauma and exacerbating the barriers they face to housing, while doing nothing to solve the underlying problem.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: afforadle; criminalization; homelessness; housing
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To: PLMerite

Mobile homes cost $250,00 here.

Median housing price is $842,000.


41 posted on 04/12/2024 9:16:11 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: Aria

Most are druggies, they are not homeless they got kicked out of their homes for their drug habits......they want free housing just like the free food and health care they already get.


42 posted on 04/12/2024 9:32:47 AM PDT by caww (O death, when you seized my Lord, you lost your grip on me......)
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To: Mariner

There’s a big difference between bums and hoboes and the working poor. I don’t object to helping those who, through no fault of their own, can’t earn enough to sustain themselves at a reasonable level. Motivation and effort don’t always equal success.


43 posted on 04/12/2024 9:33:19 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

no
there’s plenty of housing in much of America

that’s not the problem

the problem for most of the homeless is
1. narcotics addiction
2. alcohol addiction
3. both of above
4. laziness
5. welfare handouts addiction (especially where they can get, in effect, three or four times the food they need like in Californication)
5. attitudinal poisoning (like, “I’m entitled, You Give Me!”)
7. trained by corrupt leftwing politicans to be addicted to free handouts, welfare, loan forgiveness and all the rest... in exchange for votes
6. all of above


44 posted on 04/12/2024 9:45:56 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: BBB333

There are so many people with stories like yours, people who **really worked** for what they got. I think that is an important thing that we have lost.


45 posted on 04/12/2024 10:08:24 AM PDT by Chicory
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To: ColoCdn

Yes and now that idiots a senator


46 posted on 04/12/2024 10:44:32 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: Chicory

Thanks.

You are right!


47 posted on 04/12/2024 10:49:31 AM PDT by BBB333 (The Power Of Trump Compels You!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Also according to The Hill, good health is the remedy for illness.

There have been many attempts at finding the bottom in the well of stupid over at The Hill (since John Solomon was given the boot), but no one has been able to find a cable long enough to get to the bottom.


48 posted on 04/12/2024 11:15:50 AM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Do a search for Cabrini Green.


49 posted on 04/12/2024 11:17:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

Do a search for Cabrini Green.

Combat zone that had to be razed.

5.56mm


50 posted on 04/12/2024 11:21:03 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: BBB333

Wow. I hope you live someplace nice and not just expensive.


51 posted on 04/12/2024 11:22:02 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: M Kehoe

Only new housing going up in neck of the woods is Sec 8.

Deep State really, really doesn’t like competition.


52 posted on 04/12/2024 11:22:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: mewzilla

“Only new housing going up in neck of the woods is Sec 8.”

Lather, rinse and repeat.

5.56mm


53 posted on 04/12/2024 12:58:51 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Same BS trope they peddaled in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90,s etc.


54 posted on 04/12/2024 1:12:38 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I like the current solution.

The lavish welfare blue states are vacuuming up the homeless nationwide.

They’re doing the rest of us a tremendous service.


55 posted on 04/12/2024 2:15:06 PM PDT by Freest Republican (This space for rent)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Close the border. Deport the illegals. Put the mentally ill in mental hospitals. Put the bums and drug addicts in jail. Problem solved. It worked for many years until we closed the mental hospitals and the leftists released people from jail.


56 posted on 04/12/2024 4:44:00 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as big an enemy to this country as national media)
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