Comment on Park benches don't "open" until 10am

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• kamee@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why spend money on housing them when you can instead (i assume) employ someone to keep to anti-homeless benches on schedule and pay consultants extraorbitant fees to help you design anti-homeless parks

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  • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Ironically, the guy who has the job of maintaining the equipment and schedule

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• majster@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Over here entrance to shelters is permitted only to the sober. Its more complicated than that.

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  • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s a lot easier to get sober if you have housing and basic needs covered.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Our town, one shelter they essentially dry out at (at their own pace), one shelter they go through a program that trains them on basic adulting and job skills like paying rent and filling out timesheets. together they make

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    • endbringer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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      • orochi02@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Agree, but also I still think we should House them instead of investing into hostile architecture because its just more sensible

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You have to solve your problems before we help you solve your problems. Top notch logic there.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And it’s impossible to get a decent night’s sleep outside with all the traffic, pedestrians, noises, cops, etc. unless you self-medicate. If you can’t get a good night’s sleep you go insane.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In metro Vancouver area theyve bought old hotels and other buildings and set up barrier free housing. But it doesn’t totally fix it because some, due to mental health, still don’t want housing (or rules that go with housing) and some are destructive and start fires.

    Its a super tough problem that needs a root cause fix in early childhood years when kids need a good life.

    A former addict/homeless person also mentioned that all the comforts, and safe injection sites, free clean drugs, etc just insentivized them to keep using, since there wasn’t hardship to force change.

    Its like a no win situation, right now.

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    • bus_factor@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Some people need to hit rock bottom to get the right motivation, others just need a chance to get back on top. We shouldn’t accommodate the former at the expense of the latter.

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