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A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars
(hechingerreport.org)
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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"We have the money to fix the problem, we really just don't want to."
Everyone always says homelessness is a complicated issue due to addiction and mental health and then that's it. full stop. in many peoples heads those TWO groups are the ONLY groups that make up the homeless population. but after volunteering I know better. you have students, you have women escaping domestic abuse, you have the elderly who can no longer afford rent, you have kids who are LGBTQ+ that have been disowned by their families, you have refugees, and you have people who simply lost their jobs and fell through the cracks.
allowing students to sleep in their cars is not a solution. it's another band aid applied to a massive gaping wound. And this isn't just an America issue, several countries are guilty of band aid "solutions". I mean hell here in Canada the government is talking about investing $1billion into AI for fucks sake. That $1billion could be better served in providing people with homes. There's never any long term planning here, always short term "solutions". Wouldn't it be advantageous to governments to ensure people have homes in order to get them back into the workforce thus paying taxes.
Call me a heart on the sleeve soft liberal all you want but I'm of the firm belief that EVERYONE deserves and has the right to a home and food and if they can't provide either of those things for themselves than we as a society, as a community, need to provide it for them. And I firmly believe that the majority of our society feel the same and wouldn't mind their tax dollars going towards that. It's just that the powers that be don't want that.
Ew, your hatred of people and desire for others to be suffering or non-existent is showing and it's gross.
Your ignorance of the realities of famines and resource management shows, and it's fucking pathetic. I am poor, I don't hate poor people, I am explaining the problem is that religious people refuse to have sensible limits on procreation when there are government handouts. For example, in China, they have sensible procreation policies at times. I don't support their lack of freedom of speech, but nature and math are realities that can't be ignored. Clearly, you prefer platitudes and would rather ignore science.
I dont care for what lies you tell yourself to make yourself feel better about them.
Plans that involve the suffering of others should never come first. And your choice to pretend you have gone through all others plans is not reality.
I wasn't saying that there shouldn't be housing first... I'm just saying that there are conflicts between religion and religious values and proper resource management
maybe there should be housing first and then cultural and religious problems that lead to resource issues should be sorted out later
The idea "poor" people shouldn't be allowed to breed is basically equivalent in my eyes to Nazi eugenics. A human being's true worth should never be measured by the size of their bank account, or by their social class. The only reason poverty exist in the first place is because of evil, greedy fucks like Jeff Bezos. If anything, the rich shouldn't be allowed to breed. That would do a lot more to address poverty than anything else.
It's such a 19th century-ass take that it's on the verge of proposing eugenics and Magdaline laundries.
according to OP we should apparently murder the homeless because nobody below a certain income level should be allowed to live or have kids. i've seen this argument before... mostly from people who had wealthy parents and feel like nobody should have kids unless their parents have millions in the bank to pave an easy life path for their children... just like theirs did.