• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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      3 days ago

      …But nobody wants to live there.

      You could give a bunch of homeless people housing, but there’s simply no structure around it. They have no money, and there’s no jobs. There’s no services around. They won’t be much better off than homeless in a big city tbh. Might be WORSE off.

      There needs to be available housing near the places where there’s actually things to do, jobs to hold, services to use.

      Worst part is, I bet a LOT of those ghots towns are suburban, not urban - so it makes it more difficult and expensive to build up a new community there. Everything is spaced out

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      3 days ago

      They need economic activity to be livable. Shoving broke people onto a reservation doesn’t accomplish that.

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        3 days ago

        They create the economic activity.

        More people living in an area means there’s more to do and more people to do it.

        On average, each additional person contributes more than they take out.

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          2 days ago

          They create the economic activity.

          You have to go back and actually read Kapital.

          More people living in an area means there’s more to do and more people to do it.

          Visit a refugee camp and explain that to the locals

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      3 days ago

      A lot of those places suck and they’re not going to turn into vibrant cultural centers with social services quickly.

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        2 days ago

        It won’t happen overnight.

        If homeless people would prefer living in tents under highways, that’s their choice.