Edit: Unlike the sibling poster I am saying it give it to them directly.
I guarantee you it if you set the average homeless person up with a nice apartment and just gave them the change from
that $4700 in a real bank account no strings attached in perpetuity the problem would get sorted real quick. Oh no they do drugs?! like the heaviest drug users I've ever met aren't white collar.
Even better offer them that same $4700 deal but pay to relocate them to the midwest and they'll be able to afford all but the penthouse luxury apartments, pay all their bills and expenses, and still put $2k in savings/discretionary spending every month.
Like we're talking about spending an amount of money that would be life changing to the average american household per capita and pretending that somehow it wouldn't change lives. Sure there's gonna be exceptions but buy some sandwiches and forties shoot the shit with some homeless folks sometime. They're mostly normal-ass people who've been traumatized by homelessness and stuck.
In a world where I become one of those rich people that can't spend money fast enough to not get richer that's 100% gonna be my lifetime project. Wonder if Bezos is looking for a new wife.
Definitely giving them $4700/month no strings attached will solve the problem quickly. I get it, white collar people are the heaviest drug users, but the fent will kill them in the street in a couple of months. That’s just $10,400 spent, which is much better than where we are now. It is, however, a very dark solution, and not humane at all.
Look, I get what you're saying but there's very little alternative. Putting strings on the aid makes it not do the one thing it needs to do which is provide unwavering stability and a sustainable alternative to their previous way of living.
If you want to force people into rehab because their addiction is going to kill them then do that. That's an independent problem from
being homeless.
We can't be like addiction is a disease and "just get clean your ability to have food and shelter depends on it" at the same time.
Edit: Also good fucking lord I can't even imagine a worse way to do permanent housing. You disperse them into regular neighborhoods like any other renter. Whoever thought packing them together was a good idea is insane.
The bit about white collar drug users isn't some snipe about executives doing too much cocaine, but that white collar drug users aren't dropping dead like flies on vinegar.
I guarantee you it if you set the average homeless person up with a nice apartment and just gave them the change from that $4700 in a real bank account no strings attached in perpetuity the problem would get sorted real quick. Oh no they do drugs?! like the heaviest drug users I've ever met aren't white collar.
Even better offer them that same $4700 deal but pay to relocate them to the midwest and they'll be able to afford all but the penthouse luxury apartments, pay all their bills and expenses, and still put $2k in savings/discretionary spending every month.
Like we're talking about spending an amount of money that would be life changing to the average american household per capita and pretending that somehow it wouldn't change lives. Sure there's gonna be exceptions but buy some sandwiches and forties shoot the shit with some homeless folks sometime. They're mostly normal-ass people who've been traumatized by homelessness and stuck.
In a world where I become one of those rich people that can't spend money fast enough to not get richer that's 100% gonna be my lifetime project. Wonder if Bezos is looking for a new wife.