Eliminate income, corporate, property, capital gains taxes and social security and you will see this and pretty much every other economic issue in our country vanish. All these other ideas are bandaids that aren't addressing the ROOT problem.

When you tax businesses....which already operate on razor thin margins....they respond one of two ways. They either lower pay or increase prices, or both. This has the net result of people who are now less well paid being unable to afford commercial goods, which are now too expensive. This is why cost of living is so high.

Government is too big and sucks too much wealth out of the economy, while neglecting to perform its antitrust functions so that bankers and politicians can line each others pockets.

The end result is that the people who are the worst off simply give up trying to make it and choose to be numb and carefree. It's not a pretty sight, and it will never change until we fix the economy.

I hate Reddit sometimes, I was not comparing those two things. I was just comparing the action. Get an education before arguing online with people when you clearly don't understand what is being said.

>it is part of capitalism

If it were, then all capitalist countries would have this problem. Homelessness barely exists in places like Sweden and Denmark.

I was in NYC in September. I was amazed at how few homeless there were and how clean the city was, compared to where I live. From Manhattan to Brooklyn to the Bronx to Queens, I was impressed with how under control they had the houseless problem, relative to Portland, OR.

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The city needs to do something so that tourists and businesses don't flee the city. The city needs to do something to help the homeless.

Leaving insane drug addicts alone to fend for themselves is not "empowering". It's cruel.

In NYC, there’s affordable housing available to the homeless for as little as $100 a month. There are requirements though, such as not having an active drug addiction and being willing to work a government job if you’re physically able. The NYC homeless population is mostly people who don’t fall into this category, either drug addicts or the severely mentally ill.

Building a ton of pre-fab housing in middle of nowhere land is not the solution to homelessness, as proper maintenance and care would need to be applied for the housing and neighborhood as a whole to continue existing. People who end up homeless are usually those least able to maintain their own homes and function in an affordable housing community.

We need a natural predator like a chupacabra or something

Land is plentiful? Where? Maybe romote places with little access to necessities. Loud of bullshit

A military grade camp facility is assembled within 2-4 weeks with basic ammenities. It is really dirt cheap and not rocket science.

Homelesness has nothing to do with the material inability to meet demand for housing.

New York has the highest level of income inequality in the country and is home to over 100 billionaires, surely their philanthropy will help any day now~

Head on over to r/quityourbullshit with that nonsense.

The answer to homelessness is build housing to create homes.

Genocide of a certain religion and homelessness are not …. Comparable. The Uighur population were largely functioning and active members of society.

Homelessness is a global problem and there IS things we can do. Addiction help (free), job counseling, housing resources, better resources for vets (40% of homeless people are vets)…. The list goes on.

AI cannot fix that, it is part of capitalism, thus a human flawd. Among many others. In health care, Insulin prices is another example.

In practical terms, the housing problem was solved 60 years ago with prefab manufacturing. Anything from concrete building blocks to baracks is dirt cheap to assamble on the spot.

Land is also plentifull. In the capitalist system, for there to be income from assets, there must be artificial scarcity in goods though.

Thus there are homeless people camping next to 1 million Dollar houses. If zoning laws get eradicated and governments start construction, property values would be cut in half fast as an example.

Yea it sucks, but thanks for the signaling

Bus them to Mexico and Canada, and we can trade them for immigrants.

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Sounds like another wonderful form of Eugenics, which has done such wonderful things for humanity in the past. /s

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So, the city needs to do something about it so you’re not uncomfortable? My heart goes out to you

We went through this in the 70s and 80s. We had state run facilities, homes and hospitals for the mentally ill. In the late 80s the media started reporting on the bad conditions for the patients. After years of this exposure NY state and others shut down most of the system in the early 90s. This is why there is no program in place today. The reasons why are many. The biggest reason is human nature. There are probably a dozen large psychiatric hospitals that are abandoned across NY state.

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It's an unsolvable dilemma. Many of them are substance addicted, and cannot afford to have somewhere to live. You can house them, but forcefully cramming people into beds is not ideal and it's expensive. You can wait for them to get arrested and go to prison for stealing or drug possession. You could just ditch all of your human empathy and round them up to work in labor camps like China did with the Uighurs. The best solution is to leave them on the street, were they can shoot up and occasionally be a bother to somebody. The police are just there to clean up afterwards, and are not able to prevent any issues with them.

Our entire society needs to do something about this.