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0 pointsJoeAltmaier9y ago0 comments

Why not address it locally? Its easy to say "somebody else's problem" when dealing with your poor, dirty homeless neighbors. And its a problem all over - the reciprocal argument "the State can't fix everything for everybody" is valid too.

The real hangup in all this comes when temporary fixes (tents) are pulled out from under people, and ephemeral future fixes by indeterminate somebody are waved around. People have to be sheltered every day. Starting today.

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stale20029y ago

Because it is extremely expensive to address it locally, and you could help a LOT more people by taking that money and building homes for people in less expensive places.

Every 1 homeless person that you help in SF is 10 people that you could be helping somewhere else

WillPostForFood9y ago

You can still do that without having the state run the program. The homeless problem in SF might looks somewhat different from Chula Vista, so it makes sense to have locally created programs in addition to state programs. Regardless, the state does run homeless programs, and earlier this year passed a two billion dollar program to build housing for the homeless.

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stale20029y ago

Because it is extremely expensive to address it locally, and you could help a LOT more people by taking that money and building homes for people in less expensive places.

Every 1 homeless person that you help in SF is 10 people that you could be helping somewhere else

WillPostForFood9y ago

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