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DeezerShoove » Yesterday, 7:39 pm » wrote: ↑

Yesterday, 7:39 pm

Even when there is cheaper housing available, it gets torn up.
The residents don't give a ****. They have no skin in the game.

Maybe I been around Detroit too long but it happens ALL THE TIME.
Build an "affordable housing complex". Turns to complete ****.
Subsidize houses in neighborhoods. Neighborhood turns to ****.
Always.

Let them squat at a park n ride:
No **** way people will leave a vehicle there. **** trash steals stuff.
I have no solution. I'm not trained in any way to come up with something.
I don't have much empathy either.

Allowing this to become socially acceptable isn't a solution either.
That's where we seem to be these days. Crocodile tears for the poor bastards.

This mirrors my sentiment on this topic. It is a huge mistake for cities to allow Bums to squat and live in public spaces.  1) It completely defeats the purpose of those places paid for by tax dollars when the cities were "selling" it to its citizens; and 2) its a cheap, hands-off, do-nothing approach to the problem of dealing with Bums.

I hate public housing.  Like Deezer said, the Bums quickly tear it up and destroy it.  But, I do think some form of Bum-housing needs to exist.  And, the drug-addicted Bums need to be separated from the Bums who are mentally inferior or just down on their luck.  The latter group can be made to "work" to keep the housing complex tidy, maintained and clean. That can be their "job" if they are going to live there. Sort of like a commune with a dictator who enforces the rules.

The former group, the addicts - well, they just need to be given a place where they can go to get high and die. Within this space, they would be provided with a place to live, some basic non-nutritious food and water......and drugs.  "Welcome to Bum Acres - where you can get high and die".