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!
Friend of ours is a well educated psychologist, she does drug counseling in lieu of jail. Convicts in her program have 4x better outcomes and her program (including her salary) costs the county less than 1/10th what they pay to keep drug charge convicts in jail. Still, the county refuses to expand the program and pays far more to send the majority of their drug cases to jail, because that's how the judges want to handle it.
you could have benches shoot fire periodically like every hour or so. regular users would rarely be affected, but if anyone tries to sleep on it, they won't do it again.
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?
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.
"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? ;-)
defenestration
finally a good leftist meme
