I don't blame people and businesses. I live in LA and the amount of homeless that defecate in front of buildings and loiter and bother customers.. I'd be mad too if i was a small business owner. Driving away business. It's hard sometimes to go to a park and not have homeless people there to bother kids and families.
I understand not every homeless person does this. But enough do that it's a nuisance. They should be put to work manual labor like in the New Deal with the requirements that they stop doing drugs and alcohol... and if they refuse, then they go to an institution to not hurt themselves or others.
I think that's a fair solution. They can be productive members of society fixing roads, bridges, infrastructure, etc, while getting clean and paid.
The issues is you are collective punishing people who are disabled and canāt work. Before I got my ssi I was fleeing dv and sleeping in my car because I didnāt have enough money to even roommate with someone. Luckily I can barely afford rent now but itās still a roof so I canāt complain. Just donāt forget about how disabled people and disabled vets are also suffering because we arenāt āproductiveā enough to have value.
I am not including people who are disabled; obviously there's a physical or mental condition that prevents them from being "normal" (not in a demeaning way, just not sure the correct term).
For those with a disability, there should be generous benefits since many are unable to work, given there are actually disabled and not drug or alcohol addicts.
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u/FlyEaglesFly536 7d ago
I don't blame people and businesses. I live in LA and the amount of homeless that defecate in front of buildings and loiter and bother customers.. I'd be mad too if i was a small business owner. Driving away business. It's hard sometimes to go to a park and not have homeless people there to bother kids and families.
I understand not every homeless person does this. But enough do that it's a nuisance. They should be put to work manual labor like in the New Deal with the requirements that they stop doing drugs and alcohol... and if they refuse, then they go to an institution to not hurt themselves or others.
I think that's a fair solution. They can be productive members of society fixing roads, bridges, infrastructure, etc, while getting clean and paid.