• Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t want to be housed either, if it came with a laundry list of stipulations, requirements, and more or less complete destruction of autonomy. I doubt anyone would turn down a free, no-questions-asked place to call a home. Somewhere safe to rest and begin working on the issues naturally.

    Housing first tends to more or less solve, or drastically reduce, homelessness and all the associated negative things - crime, substance abuse, medical issues, etc. Turns out it’s easier to get all the other things sorted and get back to society when you have the bare minimum left.

    Sure there will probably be a very small percentage of people who just… don’t want to. They’re actually happy doing their thing, and that’s not really a problem. But I’d strongly doubt it’s less than a tenth of a percent of the current homeless population.

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      1 year ago

      Im not sure how large the number is only that in the decades I have volunteered with shelters that some exist.

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        1 year ago

        Sure, some. And some people eat shit for fun, it’s a minority of a minority, and I’d put good money on that

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          Like I said I can’t say how big or small the number is. It isn’t the majority as most unhoused people are not chronically unhoused.

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            1 year ago

            Then what’s the point of you saying some people don’t want houses? You said earlier you think they should have them, but you bring up that some don’t want them. Ok, we’re not talking about them. What point are you making?

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      But I’d strongly doubt it’s less than a tenth of a percent of the current homeless population.

      Also by definition it’s 0% of the current homeless population who is unhappy being homeless.

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        I don’t know if you misspoke or if I’m just misreading it. I really hope you’re not making the “these people aren’t changing their circumstances so they must by definition be Happy in them” argument. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and ask for clarification because that’s a fuckin dumb argument lol