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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?[/quote]

Gentrification causes people to lack homes. [/quote]

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job. [/quote]

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt[/quote]

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it.  Whatever it takes.  [/quote]

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.[/quote]

60-70% of the unhoused living on the streets are there because of mental illness and/or substance abuse.  The only way to get them off the street is through treatment and most will refuse.  And, while they are in such a state of substance abuse and/or mental illness that it prevents them to function, you can't put a roof over their heads without treatment.  Someone who's mentally ill with a kitchen might burn the place down, someone who has a serious substance abuse problem will tear open the walls and sell the copper for drug money.  In DC it is actually legal for any qualified medical professional to have them involuntarily committed to a treatment program.  If we're ever to take homelessness seriously, that needs to be an integral component and the only choice given should be that if they are mentally ill or have a substance abuse problem they either need to be committed and given treatment or go live in some other jurisdiction.[/quote]
What’s your evidence for that number?[/quote]

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