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What if homelessness was treated as a crime in place of building homeless shelters?

Put all homeless in prison, use prison system for rehabilitation
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
And who would pay for that? Easier and cheaper to give the homeless housing. No guards to just start off with.

And you said rehabilitation on top of that! That's something that doesn't work when they don't want to.

Ever try to rehabilitate an alcoholic? They are alcohols for life! It's one of the reasons I had to take care of my mother. One on one.

Are you going to pay for one on one rehabilitation as well as guards for life? 🤷🏻‍♂
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@mysteryespresso Those last years my mother basically told me what made her an alcoholic without realizing that she was doing that.

That's what a rehabilitator does. You listen. And only put a suggestion every so often. Living with my brothers first wife taught me how to do that. She was a psychologist.

The guard part I learned in the military. My half brother knew about both. I was the perfect solution for our mother.

Other families just aren't so fortunate. Circumstances have a massive part to play in homelessness.
@DeWayfarer trump deserves to be homeless
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@mysteryespresso He wouldn't survive. It would be a death sentence at his age.

I know this because my next door neighbor a marine died after being kicked out.