“Clearing Homeless Encampments” is a Horrific Euphemism for Actively Oppressing the Poor
“Clearing Homeless Encampments” is a Horrific Euphemism for Actively Oppressing the Poor
The fact that we have homeless people at all is abhorrent. It should be impossible to be homeless except by choice in what is supposed to be the wealthiest, most powerful, supposed greatest nation on earth. Like, what the fuck are we even doing to let this happen?
8We cleared out a homeless encampment in a park in my city and the entire city cheered as we relocated these people to outside of the city on a cold highway. We literally just dumped vulnerable people onto the side of the highway after destroying what little "home" they had left. They're miles and miles away now from their social services.
35Took them too far away from any dumpsters to rummage through, took them away from water sources, shelter, took them far away from people to panhandle from
2Many of them likely died.
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No matter how many times you refer to them as "unhoused" to make yourself feel a little bit morally superior, the homeless literally couldn't give a single fuck how someone refers to them
They'd prefer a sandwich or some socks to be honest
26I'd actually prefer a home, but you know, whatever I guess.
16Ehh. I hear you, and definitely.
But another reason to use to term unhoused is to point to the solution, we need more affordable houses. I work in government and I don’t mind the shift, helps frame the problem a bit better and makes it more of a society problem (something we as a government could do something about) vs an individual problem. Build houses. We can do that as government/society. We could provide housing to vulnerable populations in ways that work for them.
2No.
Do you think the reason there is a housing shortage is because there isn’t enough houses?
Listen I know that SEEMS logical, but it isn’t in this case.
The reason for the housing shortage in America isn’t because there isn’t enough houses to go around.
To understand the housing crisis you have to understand how investments work. Investment and financial institutions are allowed to purchase homes for investment reasons. There is no limit to their greed. They buy out entire neighborhoods and artificially keep surrounding prices high. This props up the rest of the market. It keeps rental prices high and it keeps home purchases high.
The reason building new homes doesn’t work is because these investment firms will gobble up these homes. They won’t go to the people you want them to go to. This will only make the problem worse.
If you want affordable housing you need to go after the investment firms. Take away their ability to buy homes for the sake of “investing”. They are single handedly the reason for the insane home prices and nothing will change as long as they are allowed to sit on empty homes for eternity.
Let me come at you in a slightly different angle. There is a massive amount of empty homes in the USA. These empty homes are owned by the investment firms, not to sell or rent out, but to keep prices artificially high. The point is the homes are there. We don’t need more. We just need to pry them out of the hands of the monopolies. More empty homes won’t solve this problem. Removing investments from this will solve the problem.
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Surely having to use what few bucks they scrounge up on a new tent 5x a month will help them afford an apartment faster
37😮💨
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Next day: Why are there so many homeless people sleeping in entrances and public buildings out of a sudden?
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