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The few people injured by the fire benches are likely to be poor so they can’t sue anyway.
I say go ahead with the fire benches. Can we add spikes that shoot up out of the bottom every 4 hours over night? Spikes with aids on them?
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See The End of Policing for stats on why locking people up costs more than housing. See According to Need podcast for why housing-first costs less.
Yeah, but giving them housing and food doesn’t punish poor people or increase our slave population!
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Aghhhhh. I hate this so much. The same with head start programs. Like every $1 spent on early childhood programs saves $7 (at the low end!) in the long run. We have the answers. Makes me want to scream honestly.
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I know someone who is homeless and sheltering them (in shit conditions) is costing the local council almost twice as much per month as just giving them an apartment.
Explain?
The councils pay landlords for 1 room in a 8+ room house.
In the area I’m thinking of, this costs £900 (or $1100) a month. For comparison,
- Council flats (1 person flat) cost £500-600/month
- Market rate for apartments is £1000 / month.
I think the absurd rate being charged for abysmal conditions is partially rationalised by the fact that it’s paid to those landlords on a daily basis, but it’s obviously completely inefficient.
I don’t want to go into the horrors of being in a homeless shelter, but it would be better for everyone involved if housing was more accessible.
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It may also be cheaper for the government as they wouldn’t need to spend so much on bureaucracy trying to figure out whether someone deserves money.
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“No fair! I went to work today! Those people didn’t and deserve to die horribly of exposure for it!”
Yes, and I’d like to not see it happen either 🥰
/s obviously
More incentives for private funding of housing? ;-)
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finally a good leftist meme
