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Originally Posted by nixcity
If your version of hiding them away is housing then it sounds like they don't have a huge problem. If all of our homeless people were "hidden away" then there would be nothing to talk about right now.
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I mean, Prop B isn't doing that, it has no funding for housing, it has no funding for anything. It's just making it illegal to sleep outside and says that homeless people should have permanent housing. Which, I mean yeah.
There are other initiatives that the city and private groups are working towards for permanent housing for the homeless, and those are bearing a lot of fruit (Foundational Communities, tiny houses, buying hotels, etc.), but obviously we are well short of housing everyone.
I think we are all going to wake up after Prop B is passed (which I expect it to) and a lot of people are going to be very disappointed that it didn't remove homeless people from sight in the city. Even on this forum people are for prop B because of things that are presently still illegal (like camping in parks). I mean, the signs and messaging from the pro prop B people is *extremely* promissory about what the post-prop B future looks like and I am sure the people who vote for it will just get angrier and continue pushing more and more restrictive measures against the homeless population when this plan also doesn't get rid of homeless people.
I would *still* love for someone to go to Republic Square or Wooldridge Square and show me the dystopian hellscape that I keep hearing about vs what both of those parks looked like a decade ago.