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In reply to the discussion: The surprisingly simple way Utah solved chronic homelessness and saved millions [View all]reddread
(6,896 posts)42. that hardly follows
objecting to an emptier glass is not an attempt to throw up your hands and walk away.
pretending the rosey scenario painted by months old mainstream media "news" story means anything
to those who have not been helped is throwing up your thumbs and walking away.
Housing First goes back a long ways, and there are municipalities milking it for everything it is worth.
Except long term housing.
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The surprisingly simple way Utah solved chronic homelessness and saved millions [View all]
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
OP
And pretty soon, the newly-homed are in positions to become contributing members of society.
Octafish
Apr 2015
#1
Seattle did. They were widely dissed by talk radio for building a 'drunk motel' for people who were
freshwest
Apr 2015
#9
And, that's the rub...the puritan mind-twist is so strong in the 'Murcan psyche.
Surya Gayatri
Apr 2015
#10
Social Darwinim is the survival of the fittest economically, eugenics by wealth. Very Ayn Rand but
freshwest
Apr 2015
#18
I suspected you were using it, but wanted to explain it in case some were NEVER taught about it.
freshwest
Apr 2015
#25
It must be a cultural thing. The expression was Christianity 101 when I was growing up.
freshwest
Apr 2015
#45
I didn't take it as "shaming" San Francisco... where I also live and (luckily) own a home.
deurbano
Apr 2015
#23
I understand the popularity of this story, but it is not applicable everywhere.
maxsolomon
Apr 2015
#13