• Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website
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    1 year ago

    /s

    And for those unaware, the cost of homelessness does exist, and it is quite high. We pay for it through emergency services (police, doctors, ambulance, hospital beds), waste removal services, etc.

    The problem needs fixed, and part of the solution is commie blocks unironically.

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      1 year ago

      You are forgetting the cost of building “asshole design” infrastructure, like spikes under bridges, instead of building affordable housing.

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        Hostile architecture makes my blood boil. We’ve really let more money be invested into hurting people that need help than to actually help them.

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      Very much so. Legal system, downtown areas, medical care… all face expenses of one sort or other, and those get passed on to the consumer and taxpayer. But a lot of people that don’t have to deal with the homeless because they live in a poor and/or rural area, or are incredibly hostile to homeless, that it’s fine for them to push the indirect tax onto areas that don’t have that demographic.