Fundamentally, the homelessness problem is a shortage of homes. If there are more people than there are homes, it doesn’t matter how much money you have, someone is going to be without one.
We can argue about why there is a mismatch between the population and homes, and I think there are probably many reasons going into it, but any solution focused on the people rather than the homes isn’t likely to solve anything. The people aren’t the problem.
If you think giving the homeless money will solve this, I’ll ask this: what housing do you expect them to rent?
There is not a shortage of homes. This is a contrived fallacy created by the YIMBY movement and real estate lobby. The truth is we have too many people who feel like they are entitled to live wherever they want for whatever price they can afford. I would love to live on the beach in Hawaii, but I can't afford it. I could claim that there is a shortage of homes on the beach in Hawaii, but thats not an accurate description of what is actually the root cause of the grievance here.
This doesn’t pass the smell test to me. That makes sense if homelessness was only a problem in a few places. It’s not. It’s happening everywhere. Eugene and Portland may be worse than average but I promise you it’s all over the place.
Where do you propose sending these homeless that they can suddenly have available homes?
Here is an apartment complex in El Paso that has listings for under $200/mo. There are places like this all over the US. If everyone had $1000/mo there is no reason why a homeless perfon would prefer to live in a tent in soggy Washington/Jeffferson park all winter when they can rent an apartment in Texas and still have $800 left over. The only reason they might choose Eugene would be because we let them get high and stabby while Texas doesn't put upwith that crap.
Just for a little education on what you just listed -
El Paso Texas has a problem where they manipulate migrant workers and border hoppers so they post these kinds of adds that say 70 dollars a month! 145 dollars a month! Which they mean that is the first months deposit on their 900 dollar single bedroom apartment that 4 people are going to live in.
Um, you didn’t actually read that listing, did you? If you did, you’d see that the cheapest apartment they have available is $805. $1000/mo won’t make that livable.
God damn dude, at least read your fucking links before you use them as evidence for your dumb theories. Bet you felt pretty fucking proud of yourself for finding that link.
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u/Randvek Aug 04 '22
I don’t think that it would.
Fundamentally, the homelessness problem is a shortage of homes. If there are more people than there are homes, it doesn’t matter how much money you have, someone is going to be without one.
We can argue about why there is a mismatch between the population and homes, and I think there are probably many reasons going into it, but any solution focused on the people rather than the homes isn’t likely to solve anything. The people aren’t the problem.
If you think giving the homeless money will solve this, I’ll ask this: what housing do you expect them to rent?