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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Ummm $16k is barely above the US Federal poverty level.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    no it's 1k for the house, 2k for food, and 13k to make up bullshit on the internet

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Most homeless people just need help because they are victims of circumstance. Give them an apartment with a few months of rent paid up, a few months food and doctors visits/medical coverage, and a basic phone with a few months prepaid and they'll have enough breathing room to get back on their feet, find a job, and take over the rent on the apartment.. Assuming, of course, republican policies havent completely destroyed the job market 🙄

    and that 3 months of help, and small investment, will turn them back into a working citizen paying back into the system and have them off the streets, out of shelters, and back out of the social safety net.

    and its been proven multiple times that doing this is not just the morally right choice, its the financially smart choice.

    But in America we don't care about doing the moral thing. We don't care about doing the financially wise thing. we don't care about doing whats right.

    We care about punching down at the less fortunate and more vulnerable. Which is why systems like this will never come to fruition. Which is why homelessness which is wholly an artificially manufactured issue, will never be a solved issue.

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