In my city we have built a hundred mini homes and converted an entire former hotel building to transition housing. So that is happening all over California.
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There's about 300 street homeless in Shreveport, Louisiana, in a population of 175,000. That's about 171 per 100,000 in Shreveport living on the street. A hundred mini-homes wouldn't even cut it here if the goal is house the homeless. We'd need 300 and then some.
aug 29, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Point here is, do you think those moves are adequate in the long term versus, say, building a few thousand units of public housing, some portion of which can be put toward a housing guarantee to eliminate homelessness?
aug 29, 2025, 9:35 pm • 0 0 • view
If those people are transitioned and housed, why would these encampments exist to be bulldozed? If they were transitioned and housed, these would be abandoned. If they were transitioned and housed, this initiative wouldn't even need to happen. But it is, and you are supporting it.
aug 29, 2025, 9:37 pm • 9 2 • view
Because they don’t want to transition. They are suffering from addiction and mental illness. They need an ultimatum.
aug 29, 2025, 10:09 pm • 0 0 • view
"all these people have been offered homes and said no so actually it's a kindness to send armed enforcers to throw away their few possessions" bro save your bandwidth and our screens and just say "homelessness is a choice" like the rest of your kind always has
aug 29, 2025, 10:20 pm • 6 0 • view
Also, this firmly held belief we are awful and childish for arguing against is based totally on anecdotal evidence from one city and a vibes-based guesstimate, like always, and even questioning this means we are Nurgle worshippers who want more flies laying eggs in open wounds.
aug 29, 2025, 10:23 pm • 3 0 • view
Ah, so they deserve it. Are you sure you are actually a good person like you think you are?
aug 30, 2025, 12:36 am • 1 0 • view
What's the ultimatum? Get a home or be in jail?
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