Let’s move towards making housing affordable. We know there’s not enough housing for our population, so need to build more. Currently housing is used as investments and so there’s incentive to keep it scarse, so maybe need to make it less appealing as an investment. Maybe that means increasing pay; we had a generation that fought hard for a 40 hour work week, but companies took a dump on that generation’s accomplishment by making 40 hours not enough to live off of.
Maybe we need to get better at helping people recover from tragedies. Like people who lost their house to a hurricane and are getting dicked over by insurance. Or people who had a serious enough medical issue that they burned through disability and got laid off while also being saddled with enormous medical debt. Or people who never had a job because they stayed at home to raise a family who find themselves becoming the bread-winner, maybe because their spouse suddenly died or turned seriously abusive where the family needed to escape.
Certainly there will always be some people who are homeless because they continue to make bad decisions, maybe we don’t have to criminalize people existing and doubly so if they are trying but are just victims of the systems we put in place.
Let’s move towards making housing affordable. We know there’s not enough housing for our population, so need to build more. Currently housing is used as investments and so there’s incentive to keep it scarse, so maybe need to make it less appealing as an investment. Maybe that means increasing pay; we had a generation that fought hard for a 40 hour work week, but companies took a dump on that generation’s accomplishment by making 40 hours not enough to live off of.
Maybe we need to get better at helping people recover from tragedies. Like people who lost their house to a hurricane and are getting dicked over by insurance. Or people who had a serious enough medical issue that they burned through disability and got laid off while also being saddled with enormous medical debt. Or people who never had a job because they stayed at home to raise a family who find themselves becoming the bread-winner, maybe because their spouse suddenly died or turned seriously abusive where the family needed to escape.
Certainly there will always be some people who are homeless because they continue to make bad decisions, maybe we don’t have to criminalize people existing and doubly so if they are trying but are just victims of the systems we put in place.