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by athenot 3539 days ago
There's an explicit 24h limit before they get kicked out and the entirety of their assets gets confiscated. On the flip side there's no timeline for providing shelter beds and a one-way bus ticket is deemed equivalent.

This is inhumane.

This feels like wealthy people wanting to erase the daily reminders about inequality so that they don't have to think about it.

If the supporters of this measure really cared about homelessness, there would be provisions for actual reintegration into society instead of just a stick. But that costs money and effort.