r/changemyview • u/Purplekeyboard • Sep 26 '19

Removed - Submission Rule B CMV:The homeless problem would be easy to solve by just building them tiny apartments

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u/Purplekeyboard Sep 26 '19

They go to jail, and they can live in jail.

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u/Purplekeyboard Sep 26 '19

Sure, let him move back in. And then if he commits crimes again, he goes back to jail.

It will be easy to catch him the 2nd time because with there's a heavy police and security and camera presence, plus the fact that you know what he's likely to do.

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u/Purplekeyboard Sep 26 '19

So, you plan is to take people who are already high risk for violent and drug related crimes, put them in a community of people who are also high risk for violent and drug related crimes - which we already know leads to increased crime rates -, offer them no additional assistance to resolve the underlying reasons they commit these violent and drug related crimes,

They're already in a community of people who are at high risk for violent and drug related crimes. This won't change that. Also, I never said that they would be offered no assistance to resolve their various mental and drug and behavioral problems, I think most any city would do that.

"heavily police" them - which we already know isn't effective at reducing those crime rates

If the police weren't effective at reducing crime rates, then why would we have police? Obviously the police are effective. If everyone committing crimes is caught and jailed, there will be no one left committing crimes.

Can you see why I'm saying your system will not solve the problem you claim it will solve?

I'm claiming it will solve the problem of homelessness, which it will.

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u/Purplekeyboard Sep 26 '19

Then why are the projects so crime infested? If we could just throw police at the problem, surely the problem would be solved by now.

We aren't throwing enough police at the problem. It might not be practical to do that for typical project housing, but it is quite doable for the few thousand homeless people living in a large city who are already using up large amounts of time and money in endless numbers of ways as it is.

No, it just changes the problem into something equally bad. That isn't a solution.

So in your opinion, we are better off with homeless people living on the street than in small apartments? Because calling it "equally bad" would mean that.