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PatFussy@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I hate the idea of treating homeless like babies. Most of these people got to where they are by choices. If they wanted to stay at the church they probably can. Most churches I know have cots for people down and out. If these people wanted to stay at the church they would have.
If churches are going to be a tax free non-profit, we need to see ‘services done’ at roughly a similar order of magnitude as their receipts would allow. And no, a couple of cots is not the answer. Perhaps a small apartment building with 8 units that the church owns and operates, and provides permanent residency for a small local population of the unhoused.
Other wise I think they church should be disbanded and its organizers held liable for tax fraud.
Well I don’t think you should go trying to disband someone’s religion. In my area Churches usually donate people and money to organizations that help the homeless. I’ve worked in the soup kitchens serving hundreds
I mean if they’ve got the receipts of how the money is spent like any other non-profit has to provide, I have no issue with it. If they can’t provide the receipts, that’s a for-profit institution, and should be taxed as such.
By definition of non profit they should not be making profit
There are more empty homes in the US than homeless.
While churches taking extreme advantage of tax exemption is a concern, a concern that should be addressed, this situation pales in comparison to the hoarding, lobbying and zoning that goes into keeping the illusion that housing is a scarce resource up, and prices intentionally high.
A lot of them have severe mental health issues
Most of these people got to where they are by choices.
Objectively false. Huge majorities of homeless individuals face chronic illness, disability, untreated mental illness, or have been abused.
The numbers vary, but most homeless people have a job and still can’t get housing due to overwhelming affordability, a factor which is manipulated against them by zoning laws and corporate ownership.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 2 years ago
You have no clue wtf you’re talking about
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Ever lived near a significant homeless population?
Soulg@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
some homeless people got there by making bad choices.
But, you know what I’ll say it, making a few bad choices shouldn’t convict you to a life on the street and being treated as subhuman by people around you
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I agree.
But you also can’t help someone unless they want to be helped. There are people out there who will take every advantage of any resources available while making absolutely no effort to change the pattern of behavior that led them there.
Splatterphace@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Motherfucker, I’ve been homeless a lot in my life and I live/work downtown, surrounded by all types of homeless.
TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Motherfucker,
I’m sure you have us no responsibility for how you ended up homeless. The world just happens to you, and your actions have no influence over your life whatsoever.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
Not only do I live pretty close to a tent city of homeless people, I’ve spent a lot of time in San Francisco interviewing homeless people there back when I was in high school working for the school paper.
You have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.
GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I too live near the San Francisco and know there is no linear answer. Odd how even in an anticdote we still corroborate that there are more factors to why homeless people cannot find housing. Odd. Does that mean we have confirmation bias? Or does that mean facts support our theories?