• schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Having these people be homeless in awful conditions is entirely a choice made by the wealthy californians. One that can be remedied in months if the harm to their health becomes larger than the utility of being able to use them as a political pawn. They can also be supplied antibiotics and flea/rodent control tools for a few dollars per capita.

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      1 year ago

      Sadly the state supreme courts have ruled that it is basically illegal to force services on these people. Many of them, particularly the heavy drug addicts are highly resistant to help and are hell-bent on pursuing their drug habit. And it’s not just in California, homeless drug users exist everywhere in the United States in all 50 states. Well, I suppose it wouldn’t last very long in Alaska due to the winters.

      But Florida, California, Oregon Washington Hawaii, they’re everywhere. I find homeless people in the middle of the forest, on the coast and in rural towns… Just about everywhere I go I find homeless people now. It’s kind of crazy and not something you saw 5 years ago.

      • schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Do any of you “we can’t provide affordable housing, stop pushing opioids on people, have a social safety net, or permit people to build multi-family dwellings because we found a homeless person who didn’t want to be institutionalised and abused” types even remotely comprehend how stupid and evil you sound? Like it wouldn’t even be believable as a villain introduction in a comic book.