I like how the article dramatically says “fact check verdict false” to the original claim of 22 houses per homeless person, and then clarifies there’s actually 31 per homeless person.

It’s not broken, it’s working as intended.

Corporate outsourcing was treason; an eternal trade deficit against the average person, community, and region. It excludes the consumer from the financial cycle. Cheaper goods are garbage when they enslave people to dependency upon them while barring participation in the local economy. The trickle down is all that exists in a void that should be a deluge.

There are 100k homeless people within 100 miles of me in the Los Angeles area right now. That’s 100k human beings that are treated worse than feral animals or Nazi concentration camps where humans were still sheltered with a roof and fed with some kind of structure for a time. Our failure to acknowledge and resolve the issue is worse than the baseline morality of the Nazis.

Although it’s only 31 if we have an accurate count of homeless people, which we almost certainly don’t. Still probably far more homes than homeless.

How many of these houses are close to public transit, or close to cities with jobs?

As true and screwed up as that is, the homeless dude in the embedded preview has a dog. You ever try to get an apartment, with a dog, a big one at that?

Not saying the dog doesn’t also deserve a forever home, but it really is complicated for a scraggly homeless fella with a big dog to be taken seriously almost anywhere.

Everyone deserves some sort of decent shelter. Let me ask you folks, what would you do if a scraggly homeless person knocked on your door, and all he asked was for a sandwich, a bottle of water, a bath, and perhaps a beard trim?

I’ve actually skipped work just to help a homeless guy get his beard trimmed. Bought him pizza too. Kinda hard to get anywhere in life when you look like shit.

Be kind to the homeless, they just need a helping hand here and there.