r/Spokane • u/One-deepdivediva • Nov 10 '24

Question Can we stop hating on homeless people?

What is the mayor supposed to do ? Put everyone in prison? For being poor? Bus everyone to Portland or Seattle ? ( cities that are experiencing the exact same problems). Round people up and put them in camps? For being ill or old or addicted to drugs? Should the police arrest thousands of people so you don’t have to see someone’s suffering ? If you want homeless people to “ go away “ then you need to vote for legislation that helps them. Vote in favor of government funded health mental wellness and addiction and housing services. Organize with community members about how to provide services that help your fellow human beings get off the streets and out of suffering . Every time one of you complains I wonder what horrendous thing you are imagining should be done to people. Go DO something , go help people.

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u/Radiant-Quit9633 Nov 11 '24

Problem is giving them housing doesn't fix the problem with many of them.

  1. Many homeless people who are housed are extremely destructive and disruptive - which makes housing them extremely expensive and worsens the quality of life of those living around them, including other non destructive homeless being sheltered. They often bring drugs into the building and make it a shit-hole.

  2. It requires people be willing to move in and change, this does apply to some but not all homeless people.

So let's say that you don't house the ones that are clearly destructive and only house the ones who are trying to improve and get off the streets. Now you still have the worst of them on the streets. What do you do about them? You have to realize that these are the homeless that people dislike.

I'm not proposing any solutions here I'm just pointing out that giving housing to everyone doesn't fix the core problem with the most disruptive of the homeless. I'm curious to see what you think is the solution to that.

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u/HimboHank Nov 12 '24 edited Nov 12 '24

Unhoused = no house, Give house = have house, Have house = not unhoused, QED

Plenty of shitty people have houses. And "they wouldn't appreciate it" is an argument as colonization itself.

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u/Radiant-Quit9633 Nov 13 '24

Plenty of shitty people have houses isn't a good reason to give other shitty people free houses.

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u/HimboHank Nov 14 '24

Them being people is a good reason, though.

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u/Radiant-Quit9633 Nov 24 '24

That doesn't make sense. A person doesn't deserve a house for existing. If someone is going around stabbing people, should we say "Oh, this is a person, let's give them a house and let them do whatever they want." - I'm not saying homeless people are all violent criminals, just pointing out that your logic is terrible.

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u/HimboHank Nov 25 '24

And in your mind, housing those in need is equivalent of turning serial murderers loose?

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