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Originally Posted by chowhou
Let's not take flowery language at face value. Every single supportive housing project is allegedly for "low-income seniors, indigenous people, women, and other equity denied groups". The sad fact is that the people most needing of help also tend to overlap with the people that cause the most problems. This isn't a seniors' home for 100 knitting grannies here, this is supportive housing and there's no reason to expect it would have a different demographic than any other project.
I begrudgingly support projects like these, but it's ridiculous to pretend that supportive housing doesn't have impacts. If anything it just makes people angry that you're hand waving away the problems instead of addressing them.
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However you want to characterize them, it still brings me back to my original question to him.
What would he otherwise do with them?
The whole "dumping them in one location in an undesirable part of town where no one else needs to think of, nor acknowledge even exists at all, doesn't really seem like that much more of an effective or viable solution.
Especially if there is, as you say, an overlap between those sort of "undesirables" with the actual vulnerable groups (the seniors and recovery addicts) that would benefit from this kind of housing.
What we seem to have with this kind of attempt is an imperfect solution for an imperfect world that elicits collective and shared responsibility for everyone involved.
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