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re: Ah, only $240 million to solve homelessness in Austin
Posted on 4/15/21 at 1:54 pm to HuntFishMan
Posted on 4/15/21 at 1:54 pm to HuntFishMan
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Article is saying an average one bedroom in Austin for $1,500, for a homeless person, surely there are cheaper options.
Homeless go where there are services. Housing isn't a priority for them.
The "do gooders" need to realize that some people do not want to be off the streets.
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Posted on 4/15/21 at 1:57 pm to VanRIch
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Most overrated city on earth. I went a couple years ago and we spent 3 days trying to locate the hype.
Fun if you were college aged in the 90's. If you enjoy live music, there were a lot of good options. 6th Street was still pretty fun and safe, aside from the occasional fist fight.
But the novelty wears off once you're old enough to go and do what you want and find out there are lots of places and lots of ways to have fun.
I think the mystique was largely from locals and people from nearby small towns who just thought it was the only place in the world where you could eat a decent meal or see a live show. And they do a hell of a job talking it up.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 1:58 pm to kywildcatfanone
I see a lot of bitching in this thread and no one offering any real feedback on the issue. I guess it's too difficult to think critically about it and is instead easier just to blame the other side. Let's have a dialogue about it.
There are dozens of causes of homeless and they're caused by policies from both sides. It's not a simple issue. No one wants to mention funding for mental health? The war on drugs focusing on imprisonment over treatment? Corporations outsourcing jobs overseas? Our reliance on cheap and often illegal immigrant labor to keep retail prices down to appease the average American consumer? Government entitlement programs that cause reliance on the system when they should instead be helping people find jobs? Your average American family being one medical emergency away from bankruptcy?
But keep saying, "Your side bad. My side good."
All that said, I don't think the proposal for Austin is a good one. It's a best a temporary solution and at worst an economic kneecapping to certain areas where they will place these individuals.
There are dozens of causes of homeless and they're caused by policies from both sides. It's not a simple issue. No one wants to mention funding for mental health? The war on drugs focusing on imprisonment over treatment? Corporations outsourcing jobs overseas? Our reliance on cheap and often illegal immigrant labor to keep retail prices down to appease the average American consumer? Government entitlement programs that cause reliance on the system when they should instead be helping people find jobs? Your average American family being one medical emergency away from bankruptcy?
But keep saying, "Your side bad. My side good."
All that said, I don't think the proposal for Austin is a good one. It's a best a temporary solution and at worst an economic kneecapping to certain areas where they will place these individuals.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 1:59 pm to BottomlandBrew
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But keep saying, "Your side bad. My side good."
IMO a huge and terrible issue in this country.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:00 pm to BottomlandBrew
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no one offering any real feedback on the issue.
Just build a massive warehouse with bunks.
We have been housing ours in the civic center. Takes up two large buildings.
Far better than building individual apartments.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:01 pm to HuntFishMan
Bus tickets to San Francisco are WAY cheaper.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:03 pm to Wraytex
quote:Take money from the responsible and successful and give it to the lazy and irresponsible. What's not to like?
If you build it, they will come.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:05 pm to Taxing Authority
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Take money from the responsible and successful and give it to the lazy and irresponsible. What's not to like?
Transfer is incredible right now.
And the blind can't see it.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:05 pm to HuntFishMan
The way to solve homelessness in Austin is to make homelessness in Austin more attractive. Seems reasonable...
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:05 pm to HuntFishMan
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individuals experiencing homelessness
another example of our moral superiors, aka "journalists", changing our language. "Homeless person" has now become "an individual experiencing homelessness". 
I can't help but laugh just thinking about the inner struggle these people have when they decide to change phrasing or words because they're "problematic". shite is hilarious to me.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:06 pm to dewster
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Bus tickets to San Francisco are WAY cheaper.
NYC used to buy plane tickets, to places like San Francisco and Austin.
The native villages ship all of their troublemakers here by Ferry.
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 2:06 pm
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:13 pm to HuntFishMan
Damn. I was paying $890 for a studio out in four points just 3 years ago.
I should just be homeless.
I should just be homeless.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:18 pm to LouisianaLonghorn
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Whatever happened to the plan to relocate the ARCH to east Austin? I’d be ok if the city uses my taxes to do that. I thought there was talk of building a new center out by the COTA.
Don't know. I had also heard out by the airport for facilities folks could use - probably some arse likened it to concentration camps or something.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:24 pm to tiggerthetooth
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Ah, only $240 million to solve homelessness in Austin
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As usual the left never actually addresses the root cause of homelessness and instead indefinitely applies bandaid after bandaid that only delays the inevitable.
Correct. This isn't solving shite for the vast majority of them. Just a temporary "fix"
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:26 pm to HuntFishMan
For $240 million the better option would be to ship all the California transplants back and keep the homeless who can reside in the now empty houses.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:27 pm to BottomlandBrew
Pretty sure austin is run by one side
I'll have to check which way the council members lean.
I'll have to check which way the council members lean.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:28 pm to DavidTheGnome
quote:i know you know no one wants to live where it's cold
There’s affordable housing in other parts of the country for people.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:28 pm to TulaneFan
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. Can’t help some people
It’s worse than that. Some people don’t want help.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:32 pm to HuntFishMan
Austin is an expensive city to live in. I don't live in cities that I can't afford, why do these people?
If the problem really is lack of housing (it's not) then they should relocate to an area with cheap and affordable housing, like Detroit, where there are hundreds of houses sitting vacant right now.
If the problem really is lack of housing (it's not) then they should relocate to an area with cheap and affordable housing, like Detroit, where there are hundreds of houses sitting vacant right now.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 2:34 pm to Big L
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I think we should build huge drug housing units where they can do all the drugs they want or get treatment. Put them in the middle of nowhere and provide free transportation to them and get their collateral damage out of our cities
Yes, and force them to stay there by rule of law. And we could call this housing a “prison”. A place for those who break the law and endanger others
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