Does anyone have a solution for America's homeless problem?
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I would question if anyone has a solution for the homeless in general tbh. Itās a divasting situation that only progresses to get worse. š
Speaking on Canada, a great step towards helping would be to address housing by taking empty unowned homes that have been empty for years whilst foreign investors try to find buyers/renters, have the govt purchase & subsidize, and give them to those in need to get people shelter. A warm place to sleep is integral.
Empty and unowned homes? Where are those?
Iām curious to know too, quiet sure they donāt exist in big cities. small and mid cities donāt interest foreign investors that much.
Itās mainly in Vancouver and Toronto. Iirc both provincial govts in 2021 & 2022 put out extra tax levies on foreign investors who owned vacant properties (āvacancy taxā) to actually try to address housing issues. Thereās tons of data on this, Iād recommend a quick search to find some resources. Not sure how prevalent they are today, but I doubt all that much has changed in only 1-2 years.
Sorry not unowned, too tired. I shouldāve said vacant homes owned by overseas investors.
You believe the government should confiscate and take control of owned properties, which have been bought and paid for by people, and provide them to the homeless?
My post says āpurchaseā, not confiscate. It should also be voluntary, not forced. They could provide fair value to the owners in exchange for the property, and utilize the newly purchased housing to help address homelessness by providing low-or-no cost homes to those in need.
Why would a foreign investor, or a Canadian investor for that matter, want to sell their property to the Canadian government? What would that do to market prices? Who decides what is fair value?
Government policies are the reason for this mess. They are not the solution.
Profit I would assume. What else drives greedy investors who purchase properties en masse in a foreign country and then let them stay empty because no one will rent at their exorbitant prices? I have no idea what it would do to market prices, but the housing market is too high and apparently will crash regardless (or so many āexpertsā say). The person who decides if the value is fair is the seller, just like if I said āHey Sikto, Iāll give you $10 for your houseā you would have the right to say no because itās a voluntary choice.
I simply made a suggestion off the cuff that /could/ help. I also never suggested there should be any policies in play that force people into anything. I only said the govt /could/ make offers on these investors properties to purchase and then they /could/ use them to help address the issue by converting them to subsidized housing or using other alternatives, such as free distribution (although thatās utopia and likely would never happen).
Perhaps not THE solution but something that could assist in finding one whilst helping people survive.
Itās not just America. Itās global and compassion towards others is a great first step IMO.
This is the way. A lot of the homelessness stems from folks that are unable to work for one reason or another being removed from the homes they couldn't afford. A lot of the problem could be solved, in America at least, if folks would stop stacking real estate and choosing to fail to rent it so that they can write it off. People with hearts instead of deeply lined pockets are priced out of purchasing multi-family spaces that could be used for housing those that need help. And there are so many rules and regulations preventing everyday folks from reaching out and helping, like being able to get arrested for feeding the homeless because you didn't get the correct piece of paper before you started doing it.
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house them, simple.
isnt Blackrock stacking houses to rent them out?šš¤”
let's trace back to the root cause of it.
why people are homeless ?
because house is too expensive, why?
because many rich dude use it as a store of value instead of just use it for what it is, a place to fucking live in.
that drive the price too high.
while the rich get more house, the poor get less and less.
the solution?
idk, let the market solve itself i guess.
just save yourself and survive.
most of them are either mentally ill, addicted to drugs, or both. would love to see some sort of non-governmental entity set up some sort of program where they buy a shit load of land in the more sparse areas of the US, build housing units for the homeless, allow them to clean up and get proper counseling, then provide high quality training, either in the trades or with technical skills like cybersecurity or programming. when theyāve finished their training and are ready for the work force, theyāre then set up with partnered companies in their area of expertise, provided they are not sent to work in the same location they were when they were homeless, as not to surround them with the same environment that enabled them to fall apart in the first place. after that, who knows. havenāt thought too much further than that. just brainstormed a bit so obviously some issues here but š¤·š¼āāļø
They don't need to build houses in unpopulated areas. We have plenty of empty, wasted buildings in populated areas that are just being left to rot by their owners for tax write offs. That's one of the things we need to change to start fixing our broken systems.
80% of homeless are homeless by choice and they don't want help or housing, etc. You can't solve that "problem". It is what it is. Help yourself.
We need a few words for different tyoe of homelessness. You're right, some choose it. It is a lifestyle for some even. Others suffer through it. We need more words..
Lifestyle homeless
Drug addict homeless
Mentally ill homeless
On side note I remember renting and feeling a sense of "homeless". Again this is why many definitions are needed. While renting I felt I truly didnt "have" my "own" home. While living with parents that home always felt like mine too. Not until I owned a home did it feel "mine". Renting, I never felt the landlord was actually sharing the home with me to be "mine".
Again this is why the term homeless needs many definitions.
Iām still trying to calculate where the hell they moved all the San Francisco homeless residents too
Spend the profits congress makes from insider stock trading on free housing
Thatās what all the fent was for but it didnāt work I guess
In an ideal world, basic shelter, water and energy should be human rights that are not for profit and provided to all by the state. This does not prevent people from upgrading to bigger and better. Itās a baseline for all to grow from.
Re-open the mental institutions Raegan emptied, and anyone on the street for more than 3 days gets forced in there by law enforcement. There are plenty of open rooms and resources for those who are genuinely homeless (involuntarily living on the street) and willing to be sober.
Every time a city decides to actually clean up the homeless, they magically figure it out. The homeless arenāt even the problem. Itās the special interests getting tons of money to āsolve homelessnessā, and then ādonatingā to politicians to keep the grift afloat. Their gravy train stops the second the city is cleaned up. As always, it comes back to incentives.
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