• Peck@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Sounds like a lame excuse for not doing the work. Why nobody requests it from their elected reps and city councils? Why nobody demands housing for homeless to be build in their neighborhood? Did you @SSJMarx petition your mayor to build something in your town?

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      3 months ago

      unfortunately my current city is all Republican, but when I lived in a blue city I did join protests and petitions to that effect.

      and I mean, there are fits and starts of good policies you can find around the country, it just falls far short of what’s needed to combat the problem.

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        3 months ago

        So you reap the benefit of living in town that’s presumably not overrun with visible homeless, but you seem fit to give advice to blue towns where I can’t take my son to the park because of naked hobos running after us. That’s not random example. This shit happens all the time.

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          3 months ago

          i used to live near a park with a lot of homeless, walked my dog there every evening, but I had to move to the sticks because I couldn’t afford the rent anymore. oh and we still get homeless traffic here, there’s just no way in hell my libertarian-as-fuck “representatives” will ever do anything about it.

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            3 months ago

            You must be one of those people that climb mountains with no ropes. Good for you- doesn’t work for everyone else. Especially women and children.

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              3 months ago

              How does this metaphor work? I’m advocating for public housing, ie making things easier for people even though I don’t strictly need it myself.

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                  3 months ago

                  The same principle applies - public housing would reduce the number of unhoused, meaning that you wouldn’t run into them at parks, and I advocate for it even though I personally have never had a problem with them.

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                    3 months ago

                    Hey I’m all for building more affordable housing. I’m just pointing your that nothing official has been stopping this solution for decades, but nothing has been done to curb the problem. Articles like this don’t address the reality of the situation. Articles like this is just a virtue signaling for the voter base. Everybody will node their little heads and move on with their day. The same people get elected and then … nothing. Me and 90 percent of poor housed city dwellers will continue to suffer the consequences. Mark my word this is the issue that might turn blue city cores into red zones. Honestly Dems are just so lucky that Republicans screwed up with abortion rights otherwise they wouldn’t have my votes either.