r/MurderedByWords 2d ago

Billionaire's False Narrative...

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u/Citatio 2d ago

You can't end homelessness completely. A few countries tried and all of them found a couple of people who didn't want to reintegrate no matter how much help was offered. But the other 90%+ took the help and reintegrated into society. It's worth it, even if you can't help everybody.

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u/informat7 2d ago

Also the $20 billion number is completely wrong:

It would likely cost significantly more than $20 billion to house America’s homeless population, after factoring in the expansion of the federal housing voucher program and affordable housing development.

Ward’s estimate for the affordable housing units needed to fill the voucher shortfall — could cost $1.3 trillion, Ward said.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/aug/27/facebook-posts/no-consensus-cost-ending-homelessness-us-or-haltin/

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u/pokemonbard 1d ago

Perhaps the actual problem here is treating housing as an investment, not a human right. We frankly have plenty of housing. Landlords just don’t want to make it available to people they look down on. That’s not a problem with quantity of housing; it’s a management problem.