gregorydgraham t1_iwfg7t9 wrote
Reply to comment by FeelDeAssTyson in Salt Lake City's city council voted in favor of a project to build a small community of tiny homes for people experiencing chronic homelessness! by Taintastic
Yep, its stupid to demand people with problems fix their problems BEFORE you offer support for their problems
Zergzapper t1_iwfi6j3 wrote
And the Finn's proved it, housing first assistance is incredibly helpful, imagine trying to get clean when every night you are sleeping in a different place where it's not really safe well how bout you take a drink or a hit and now that problem is much less stressful. It's literally keeping them using just to keep them from a stress breakdown on the street which is of course also not a good mental health solution. You get people off the street, an address to have mail and checks sent to, a place with a locking front door, they immediately feel safer and those stressors are no longer there and no it's easier to.get them help.
Northstar1989 t1_iwfoiv8 wrote
>imagine trying to get clean when every night you are sleeping in a different place where it's not really safe
Exactly this.
Asking homeless people with addictions to be completely, 100% clean for an entire month before providing them housing is horribly unrealistic, and grounded in a lack of empathy or understanding of what these peoples' experiences are like...
Vyzantinist t1_iwg9ebt wrote
> imagine trying to get clean when every night you are sleeping in a different place where it's not really safe well how bout you take a drink or a hit and now that problem is much less stressful. It's literally keeping them using just to keep them from a stress breakdown on the street which is of course also not a good mental health solution.
This so much. Normies really don't know how bleak and soul-crushing homelessness is. You'd have to be a lottery-odds level of person to get and/or stay sober when you're in that environment.
corsicanguppy t1_iwfj9yh wrote
> fix their problems BEFORE you offer support for their problems
Alcohol and homelessness are comorbid and complex but not the same problems; and they require separate, layered solutions.
Northstar1989 t1_iwfoe7f wrote
>they require separate, layered solutions.
Solutions which are extremely, extremely difficult to provide in a sufficiently reliable manner while a person is still living on the streets or in shelters.
gregorydgraham t1_iwfpmi6 wrote
Oh no! Things are hard! Guess we’ll just leave them too die
/s for the eradication of doubt
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