Homelessness is a policy failure, not a personal one.
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Wrong. Homelessness is not a policy failure. It is a policy choice. That both parties willingly make every single day they are in power. The system isn't broken; it's working exactly as it's supposed to. Homelessness is a policy decision.
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Something other nations solve with livable, thriving wages, public healthcare, social housing, childcare and elderly care. You know, “radical” left stuff.
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Exactly 👍
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Joe Biden did nothing to solve as it increased his entire term.
And nothing to alleviate the poverty responsible.
Like that promise to increase the $7.25 minimum wage.
And they wonder where all the voters went.
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We are all next door to this
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Wow
Did you just come up with this
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Homelessness is a policy FEATURE
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Not exclusively.
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I imagine some of homeless have jobs
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Trump once owed bankers millions of dollars but yet was never homeless because some people are deemed too big to fail. Being homeless is definitely a policy failure in this country
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Quadrupling rents while freezing the minimum wage; and now defending pedophiles.
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Poverty and homelessness is intentional, immoral and cruel.
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💯: this is what happens when we invest public dollars into companies that only care about private issues. Trump is one of them: pumping our public dollars into ballrooms, patios and golfing instead of looking at real solutions to help with cost of living, housing, healthcare and food.
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100% Fact !
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Homelessness is a policy triumph. What Capitalists need is a population they can control with ease. [You don’t want to conform? Look at THEM. YOU could be homeless, too] Capitalists want to kill off large numbers of excess workers? It’s MUCH easier to control or kill internally displaced persons.
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It's like no one can figure out that stagnating wages and loss of manufacturing jobs caused this. Fuck!
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Amen.
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Created by 45 years of massive income inequality.
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It is both. I would not have gone homeless if I had known about the CPP Disability plan. Mr Bolton of Surrey BC a lawyer who did some work for my Dad was paid $600 to find out what programs were available for myself who had OCD and schizophrenia. He told me and my sibling in his office there was
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Homelessness is a capitalist system failure not a policy failure.
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There are policy solutions.
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This is why people become disillusioned that either political party will solve problems. Since the 1980s, it’s a political football that neither party wants to fix.
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Tell me about it. My wife and I are homeless. There's literally no way to get into an apartment or a home. We don't qualify for anything.
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Absolutely. It is immoral that buildings stand empty while people live in tents and boxes. It matters not how much profit you make on your real estate. What matters is how many people you help.
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Homelessness, is a deliberate feature of capitalism.
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It's intentional
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Zoning in the US favors single family housing. Many towns base their taxes that way. So it's a zoning issue in it's core. And it causes urban sprawl.
We have ignored the need for low income and apartment blocks like other countries have. And using credit scores to hand out housing is just, wrong...
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Policy failure or policy choice?
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I blame Ronald Reagan for.
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System is working as designed.
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Policy Failure & Greed
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Exactly.
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Homelessness is a social failure. A society that does not help and protect everyone is a house of cards.
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I blame President reagan
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Yeah. Trump can spend billions of taxpayer dollars to build ICE facilities, but not a penny to house the homeless, nearly one-third of whom are vets.
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You can be anything want in the USA just don’t be poor.
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Remember, we can hang him for this...
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Trump is going to send the national guard into DC - get an emergency lawsuit going now!
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So true!
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Indeed
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I agree, but now that he has ordered the military to round up homeless people, your plan is what exactly?
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What policies are actually going to get implemented to end homelessness once and for all? There are plenty of people suggesting things but are they going to be able to get those policies adopted? For centuries people have been experiencing homelessness.
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It's something of a personal responsibility
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Poverty is a policy choice made by capitalists. It's not a "failure," they're doing precisely what they intend to do.
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Poverty exists solely to satisfy the desires of the wealthy. Without the poor, the lives of the wealthy would lack any significance. Excessive wealth is not a measure of success; it is a reflection of miserliness. True wealth is measured by the generosity and compassion one shows towards others.
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Yes indeed
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How exactly will they be removing the homeless from DC “immediately” as Orange Julius PedoNazi has requested?
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Perhaps. Or perhaps it is exactly what the policy was designed to do
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Disaster takes a serious mental toll, and the long rebuilding period can exacerbate the pain.
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Precisely. They first make people poor and then punish them for it.
All for power.
Keeping the masses hungry, frightened and uneducated makes it easier to control them.
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It should not exist in any developed nation. Personally I think it does to scare the people into going to work every day.
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If they can afford a ball room, an iron dome and can send weapons to Israel, they can afford to house and feed people.
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100%
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America is no longer free if homelessness is a crime
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What a ridiculous oversimplification!
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Repatriate tax haven dollars
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Exactly
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every homeless person is a policy failure
every billionaire is a billion policy failures
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Exactly what is the process for these homeless people to “move”? This optics driven pustule doesn’t make anything better, just worse. For us all.
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Genuine question, from a homeless person: What specific actions are the ACLU taking to reduce homelessness? (If there's a whole bunch like, gimme at least 5 of them or something, please.)
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Poverty and homelessness is by design in america.
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White supremacists say both parties are to blame. We know they are attempting to erase the Black race in America.
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If someone has money for a ballroom, they surely have money for a homeless shelter
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Government has no interest in people having places to live. Government has only an interest in people having places to tax.
Housing and broader real estate policy is all about creating and protecting a tax base.
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Republicans are hypocrites and Christian racists pedophiles
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The capitalist dictatorship of the united states uses homelessness as a warning, don’t you dare fall off that treadmill.
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Those damn policies put so many lives at risk, and they don’t know or care.
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Bad luck, mental health issues, financial issues, addiction issues. Some blend of all or some. The safety net fails people.
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I’ve seen quite the rise in the last year. Went from like one guy living in the Walmart parking lot to like 7 real quick.
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Food for thought.
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And we need to remember that in the year ahead. It's going to get rough out there for many.
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Sometimes it's a policy success, if the plan is to take as much money as possible on a mortgage, then purposely crash the economy, and rig the courts so that no bankruptcies result in folks keeping their assets. Low, low prices for investor class. Rig the economy for low rates. Rich get richer.
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It's also not a criminal act or offense. Thank You for being on the front lines. Resistance United.
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Love the message but you can't say your hands are clean when you've defended the vile people that end up supporting these policy decisions.
Defending free speech is one thing, but you defend hate speech, and now your country is crumbling to ruins because the Nazis got too comfortable
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Sometimes it’s a personal failure
SOMETIMES.
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It’s a systemic failure. Policy wont help the sick and needy. You need infrastructure too
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It is a community failure and a failure of the system we have in place to handle it. We have a framework for enabling, not movement or treatment in a positive direction. Not for mental health or drug addiction. We reward keeping people in the state they are in no matter how poor the conditions.
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I think you have that backwards, it's a policy bonus....
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Agreed, but even still- homeless Americans still have the right to be homeless wherever the hell they want.
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Yes! A societal failure.
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In today’s unemployment, most families are 3 months away from homelessness without a paycheck.
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Seeing a human right as an investment is a symptom of unfettered greed. Greed is bad.
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Exactly!
We need more of this. Lifting people up when they’re down not criminalizing them. And write this down. It’s in FL. 🤯
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Yes, and hiding the homeless out of view does not fix the failure.
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Housing is a critical step in solving the unhoused issue. Why can’t our govt understand this? Instead of building a ballroom, we should be building housing for the homeless.
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Yes, Reich says, "Poverty is a policy."
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Homelessness is inherent to capitalism. Is a way shut the workers up and make them work. Break the system and you won't have homeless.
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Its a personal failure to vote in ppl who dont care about it tbf
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Main reasons people are homeless are
lack of affordable housing
bankruptcy caused by medical expenses
domestic violence
trauma
One of main reasons for teens - kicked out of home because LGBTQ
Home Street Home with Tom Brokaw came out in 1988 - Vietnam Veterans and trauma
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I've worked in Social Services for years. Yes, sometimes it is a personal failure. Sometimes it's a choice.
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Truth
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The Truth, The Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth.
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I became homeless when Harvey Hurricane hit Texas In 2017, house I was living got flooded, had nowhere to go I resorted to living in my car, there was no apartments/housing available. It’s a horrible feeling not having a safe place to lay your head on. And now they’re criminalizing those people
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We have the means to end homelessness but instead we have vomit inducing fake gold trim and a stupid patio with umbrellas so grandpa can feel like he's at his tacky predatory lair.
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My sudden homelessness is directly related to the tariffs.
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If the government made policy that intentionally caused homelessness, how would that policy look different than what is being done now?
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Homelessness is tax breaks for billionaires and corporations that are extremely profitable.
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Mortgage backed securities need marking to market, not model. And bring back Glass-Steagall.
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What a concept!
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Annnd charities are a failure of government
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I think it’s an intentional policy. There have been decades of information and data available to reduce homelessness but there’s always some excuse for why we can’t
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Homelessness is not a crime
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That's capitalism for ya. Grind the workers to dust through forcing them to work multiple jobs to live, enact policies that raise prices even more due to greed and then when they can afford to have a home make it functionally illegal to exist.
We are months away from kinetic engagement.
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It's INTENTIONAL to create free labor for the oligarchs
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Glad you recognize this fact.
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I am a therapist for people who are homeless. I can guarantee four things: 1. People who are homeless are people. 2. People who are homeless are homeless because of the greed of the most wealthy because 3. if no one was homeless, the most wealthy would be entirely exposed and 4. so would the system.
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Indeed
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America was never great. Unite church with state
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The Truth!!!
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You must see this on youtube!
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That's so true, ACLU.
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The Trump’s executive order redirects federal funding to support new priorities, and cuts funding for homelessness The executive order encourages states and cities to treat homelessness and mental illness as a crime.Republicans Serving in the House and Senate are to BLAME for THIS!
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Fascism requires making homelessness seem like a personal failure, so that when the government throws them into work camps it is the individuals fault, not the white supremacist government making slavery great again.
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Yes.
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#arpx
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No, homelessness is a policy decision driven by oligarchs. If homelessness is eradicated, it will not be by the rich, but by the working class who are one catastrophe away from being homeless.
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Say it again.
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Spent my career working with homeless families. This is truth.
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The saddest part of my day is seeing people who are homeless. I pack in my car food and water just in case I find people who need it. I just cannot ignore as if they do not exist. I am human and I care.
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In America, sickness ➡️ jobless ➡️ homeless
We need to make sure everyone is able to receive healthcare, not health insurance. Health is foundational.
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So is police brutality. They go hand in hand.
America is a failed state.
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Turning the US military against its own country is not just a personal failure, it's unconstitutional.
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Capitalism requires an underclass to exploit - the existence of homelessness is policy in a capitalist society.
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It’s also an intentional crime for some soldiers to scrape their dependent wife off and marry a foreigner
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We need OJT, free education, teacher pay raises, cuts in military spending.
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I guess Trump is going to have the homeless removed. May I suggest a little place in Florida called Mar O Lago.
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Include in the remedies getting rid of HOAs. Who TF are these people? They ruin real estate markets.
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Trump will be Homeless in Hell one day.🔥👹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I gotta give 250million acres of American tax payers' land to 10 friends of mine, so I don't really have time or $$ to take care of anyone's mental health or housing needs.
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Homelessness is a sign of societal callousness and decay…which is the result of voting for the wrong people too many times.
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White supremacists running The Heritage Foundation and Republican party are at fault for our current status. They greedily support Project 2025 and liar/felon/petifile Trump. Democrats screamed about Project 2025, but no one believed it. Christian Nationalists want their Christian state established.
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Agree.
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www.coalitionforthehomeless.org
Home - Coalition For The Homeless
The Coalition for the Homeless is the nation's oldest advocacy and direct service organization helping homeless individuals in New York City.
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I mean it’s both cmon
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It's generalities like this that gives ACLU such a low rating. 1.8 of 5 stars. Riff-raff . www.sitejabber.com/reviews/aclu...
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my mom and I were driving the other day to go home and we saw a woman who was homeless come up to us talking and she held up a sign in front of my window and my mom told me not to look i didn’t look but i was scared and nervous and sometimes we see a guy and girl high on drugs who are homeless.
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guys. You support Citizens United, which fundamentally undercuts Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of Congress' power to regulate commercial activity.
It makes zero god damn sense to write such a clause if spending money is free speech.
Homelessness is a policy failure you support.
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A home is a human right.
just saying.
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Water, water everywhere…
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Feature* They do it on purpose.
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TX has decided to profit off of Homelessness! They are building 3 private psyc hospitals!
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My theory is that homelessness exists to serve as a stick to threaten people as to what can happen to them if they don't play the game and toe the line. If we can afford to house people in prisons we can also afford to house people in homes. It exists to play a role. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
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Home is a concept. It's HOUSELESSNESS. People require shelter; permanent, low-cost shelter.
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TRUTH
