The Number of Unhoused Young Children Is at Crisis Level. It’s Set to Get Worse.
The Number of Unhoused Young Children Is at Crisis Level. It’s Set to Get Worse.
The dumbest part of the US's "fuck you poor people, die in the gutter" approach to homelessness is that it's more expensive than using a system to provide homes to people:
"A further study of Finland's Housing First program found that giving a homeless person a home and support resulted in cost savings for the society of at least €15,000 per person per year, with potentially even higher cost savings in the long term.[7] These cost savings for society are in part a result of reductions in usage of emergency healthcare, police, and the justice system when homeless people are given a home."
[7]"London wants to eradicate homelessness. Here's how Finland is doing it". cbc.ca. Canadian Broadcasting Centre (CBC). 28 January 2023. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
(From Wikipedia)
Children are especially vulnerable and costly to not provide housing to. The US is, at its core, an essentially a selfish and heartless nation. You can removed all you want about that stance, but a budget is a statement of your values. Those values don't include helping people and they don't include being cost effective, so what is being achieved here except paying more to be cruel to children and their families?
so what is being achieved here except paying more to be cruel to children and their families?
The cruelty is the point. Becoming homeless is a constantly looming threat for most people, so they need to keep working to afford a home (or rather rent one). This'll keep them busy and fatiqued, which makes changing their situation a whole lot harder.
unhoused? say what it actually is. homelessness. news sites need to stop promoting the stupid euphemism treadmill, it doesn't help anyone but themselves.
Nope, it's unhoused now! I can't wait for 20 years from now when "unhoused" is suddenly considered an insult because reasons and we yet again need to invent another stupid word to refer to this. Houselessness, maybe?
Yes, just call it what it is: homelessness. There is nothing wrong with the word, it's not insulting anyone, it just says what it is.
Yeah but spawn more children for your masters
No one gives enough of a shit to do anything about it.
No one in power cares The system is set up to disenfranchise most of its population currently.
