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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a homelessness crisis in our nation, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Instead, everywhere you look a new luxury condo/apartment complex is being built. Our country is pathetic.[/quote]

There are overwhelming amounts of money spent on the homeless population. Money isn’t the issue. [/quote]

It’s a combination of two issues:

1) no affordable housing due to the urban boom over the past 20 years combined with Hope Vi getting rid of the awful old housing projects but not replacing them with low density affordable housing or section 8 vouchers.  Cities are the victims of their own success.  The area by nats park used to be an enormous housing project that covered many blocks.  Where do you think all those people went to when they built the park and the cute bars and fancy high rise apartments?

2) the opioid/meth/fetanyl crisis.  Thank the Sacklers for this, and the Chinese fetanyl producers.  A lot of these people have brains that may be permanently fried, plus we really don’t have good rehab options for these addictions.  I have a friend who works in addiction treatment and this is so far beyond the usual coke-type addictions they used to deal with.

We need a complement of different policies to deal with both of those issues.[/quote]

Also thank legalizing weed: dealers moved to meth and fentanyl, with tragic consequences.[/quote]

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