• snooggums@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    For the record, I never believed in or advocated for this approach. I pushed back against specifically the implication that you can just throw these people into some sort of housing and now you can consider the problem “solved” and wipe your hands of it.

    Nobody ever said that. They have said that it should not be a requirement to provide housing.

    • ObjectivityIncarnate@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      I pushed back against specifically the implication that you can just throw these people into some sort of housing and now you can consider the problem “solved” and wipe your hands of it.

      Nobody ever said that.

      From the OP:

      “It would cost $20 billion to end homelessness in America.”

      This $20 billion figure comes from an old estimate of what it’d cost to pay for homeless people’s rent, and nothing more. And that person effectively said that paying for that, and nothing more, would “end homelessness.”

      So yes, somebody said that.