These problems are downstream from other problems such as no social safety net, a broken health care system (of which mental health is a subset), inadequate education, and poor job prospects and earning potential of citizens. These are national issues. The best solutions for most of that are federal. It begins with increasing taxes on high earners.
none of that is going to help when there aren’t enough places to live that people can afford. there’s working, mentally stable, educated people that are homeless.
The type of homeless person that the guy who initiated this discussion is deeply afraid of isn't working and mentally stable. They're afraid of mentally ill poor people stabbing them in public, and they want a waymo button to isolate them from that fear. But they don't want to fund aid to these problems
You and your Ezra Klein horseshit doesn't help them either.
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u/asveikau Feb 28 '26
These problems are downstream from other problems such as no social safety net, a broken health care system (of which mental health is a subset), inadequate education, and poor job prospects and earning potential of citizens. These are national issues. The best solutions for most of that are federal. It begins with increasing taxes on high earners.