Reply to Homelessness in DC- has it gotten worse?

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Homelessness in DC- has it gotten worse?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. NIMBYs oppose housing.
2. Housing becomes more expensive as more people want to live in DC
3. Low-income folks are evicted onto the street.

Simple as that.[/quote].

Hey GGW summer intern!  👋  Your talking points are irrelevant to the underlying causes of street living in DC.

We need to have the courage as a society to admit we were wrong when we upended policy in the Reagan 80s and shut down the involuntary psych residential facilities.  We need to have the balls to reinstate the regulatory structure that facilitated long-term — even permanent— institutionalization of some segments of society.  Then spend everything it takes to staff these hospitals and mandate evidence-based care for these men and women. I know - ha.

The people under the bridge living with incurable schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and lifelong poly substance use disorder that has permanently remodeled their brains (aka, self medicating for the schizophrenia) can. never. live. independent. lives.

This is the population in the tents and stumbling in the middle of Connecticut Ave.  Overwhelmingly so. The striving single mom who just needs a housing voucher for the GGW-endorsed new apartments is an intentional red herring to trigger your guilt.  She has zero to do with tent cities and the public health emergency

[/quote]

This isn't even remotely true. Like you, I was skeptical of the claim that homelessness was tied to affordability, but after reading up on the literature, it's true. High housing prices and homelessness are undeniably tied together.

Here are some papers if you're interested in learning more:
https://wp-tid.zillowstatic.com/3/Homelessness_InflectionPoints-27eb88.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09380
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9906.00168?journalCode=ujua20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2012.00643.x
[/quote]
Debate Club Guy is back at it. The Google expert on every topic. LOL.

Step 1: Make sweeping, yet untrue, generalization on any topic
Step 2: People point out that it is incorrect
Step 3: Search Google for "studies" and post links without reading them
Step 4: Claim those links "prove" your point

It's a dumb game. If you cannot synthesize the evidence without posting links, then you don't have a clue what you are talking about. [/quote]

The only dumb game here is the one that you're playing by pretending to ignore all of the evidence that runs contrary to your priors. You have the evidence in front of you if you actually want to learn something instead of trying to win an Internet argument by insulting people who disagree with you. Read it, or not. I suspect I already know which one you'll choose.[/quote]
Does all of your knowledge of "evidence" come from those links that you just posted that your just Googled? Have you bothered to even read what you posted? Can you synthesize that information and re-present it accurately?

The technical term for what is happening here is what the experts call, "pulling stuff out of your butt." Just making it up as you go along, furiously Googling for post-hoc justifications to support whatever it is that you say.

You're like a conspiracy theorist screaming about everyone "ignoring the evidence" or not understanding the "truth", when you cannot even explain it yourself. My gosh. You're transparently ridiculous.[/quote]

Hey man, listen. I get it. If my heels were so dug in to an obviously wrong position, in the face of overwhelming evidence supporting the contrary position, I'd attack the messenger and do everything I could to avoid confronting the evidence too.[/quote]
Just describe the information contained in your links. Is that so hard to do? I you understood it, it would not be a problem.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics