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Food Not Bombs trial rescheduled after too many jurors objected to $500 fine for feeding homeless
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They wouldn't have to feed the homeless if the city did a better job at helping them.
If not even California can make meaningful steps towards permanent supportive housing, it sure as shit won't happen in Texas.
In CA, like everywhere, it's just a problem of money. NYC has a mandate to offer everyone temporary housing if they need it. Recently Texas and Florida have strained the system by sending thousands of migrants to NYC (100K total).
Most of them are able to find temporary housing because the city pays for it. The SF Bay Area and Los Angeles could easily do the same, but they just don't want to spend the money. They need to raise taxes slightly and get it done.
Its not even a thing of money.
cause other countries have proven, Giving the homeless apartments and support will let the overwhelming majority of them get back on their feet, find jobs, and take over all the payments htemselves.
and its proven that doing this is cheaper than keeping people on the street.
Cruelty is the point, not a lack of resources.
You think "cruelty is the point, not a lack of resources" in San Francisco? It's one of the most homeless-friendly and expensive places in the country.
Stop just copying and pasting catchphrases.
If your precious san fran was super homeless friendly, they wouldnt be on the streets. They wouldn't be handwaving money as a reason for ignoring them.
They can easily fix the problem. They just don't want to.
So yes. Its cruelty. thats the point.
You cant use money as an excuse to sit on your hands and do fuck all, especially if you are claiming to be the most homeless friendly area in the country, When a simple act of kindness in giving them housing, medical care, and financial aid, to get them back on their feet so they can take over the financials for themselves, is not only a good moral choice, its also the cheaper, more financially pragmatic option
But why help people and elevate them, when you can keep markets artificially inflated and line your pockets.
The peope being cruel and the people trying to help others are different groups, they both exist in most 'liberal' cities. Like Seattle, they have good resources for needy people compared to a lot of cities but the police are also known to have significant problems with white supremacists. And the business associations are allied with the police.
There's a GIGANTIC difference: CA is trying, TX is not.
You're actually entirely backwards there, and I'm no fan of Texas, but they have done a far better job than any of the coastal states, at least in the major metros. Google it, I'm not kidding.
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Or if they shot the homeless.