- 14 Nov 2016 18:13
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There is one: restoring their right to liberty, the right that has been removed and made the private property of landowners. In countries where landed property is not as strictly enforced, people are able to find a place where they can house themselves, even if it's in a corrugated tin shack. Our remote Paleolithic ancestors enjoyed the liberty right to use land to make housing for themselves. Our modern homeless do not have that right. It has been removed and given to landowners as their private property.
Yep. Because their right to space in which to exist on the earth has been removed and made the private property of landowners.
It is a form of slavery that affects all of us to varying degrees. But our owners are every landowner who owns a tiny slice of our right to liberty. The more land you own by value, the more you are a slave owner; the less land value you own, the more you are a slave. When you own no land, you must labor for the unearned profit of greedy, idle landowners (or mortgage lenders) just as a slave must labor for the unearned profit of his owner, or you join the homeless.
Yes, the Canadian government did a thorough study of this, and the results were unambiguous: homelessness costs society far more in emergency services, crime, etc. than just housing people.
Drlee wrote:Once someone becomes truly homeless there is no intervention at all, short of housing them, which will stop and inexorable descent into hopelessness and finally death.
There is one: restoring their right to liberty, the right that has been removed and made the private property of landowners. In countries where landed property is not as strictly enforced, people are able to find a place where they can house themselves, even if it's in a corrugated tin shack. Our remote Paleolithic ancestors enjoyed the liberty right to use land to make housing for themselves. Our modern homeless do not have that right. It has been removed and given to landowners as their private property.
In my city of just over a million folks it is a full time job for a homeless person to feed himself. They can't travel by bus so they must plan a walk between feeding opportunities. They must plan on which days a month showers are available and sometimes set out early to get to them. They must plan circuitous routes to avoid high enforcement areas and residential areas where the police will harass them on the way to find a meal.
Yep. Because their right to space in which to exist on the earth has been removed and made the private property of landowners.
Imagine a life where you have to affirmatively plan to be somewhere where you can go to the bathroom. Then you have to travel to that location and wait for the spirit to move you, so to speak. It is unthinkable. Yet tens of thousands of Americans do it every day. This in a country where our economy generates about $56,000.00 per person.
It is a form of slavery that affects all of us to varying degrees. But our owners are every landowner who owns a tiny slice of our right to liberty. The more land you own by value, the more you are a slave owner; the less land value you own, the more you are a slave. When you own no land, you must labor for the unearned profit of greedy, idle landowners (or mortgage lenders) just as a slave must labor for the unearned profit of his owner, or you join the homeless.
And here is the worst thing of all. If the government set out to take a huge bite out of homelessness by adapting a "housing first" model just for the government money currently being spent, it would save the taxpayers a fortune. In other words, it has proved to be cheaper to give someone an apartment than to leave them on the street.
Yes, the Canadian government did a thorough study of this, and the results were unambiguous: homelessness costs society far more in emergency services, crime, etc. than just housing people.
- By Pants-of-dog
- By ingliz