• relativestranger@feddit.nl
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        27 days ago

        fuck airbnb. rents have tripled here with so many apartments and homes taken off the market and turned into untaxed and unlicensed hotel rooms.

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      27 days ago

      I didn’t know that, but I do know that homelessness isn’t just a housing problem. A huge number of cases are more mental health related: E.g. even if the person had money they wouldn’t be able to live in a stable home. Because the root cause of their lack of money and homelessness is mental health. I would also consider drug addiction to be a mental health issue here by the way which would be a significant percentage of the homeless too.

      And that is of course heavily associated with the lack of affordable mental healthcare in the US :( And drug addiction care.

      Of course if you would give out housing you would save a lot of homeless, just saying it wouldn’t work for all.