[mason55]

The real issue is conversations that talk about a single cause or single solution. There are lots of causes that need to be addressed and solved separately.

But what happens is one person says “build more housing” and another person says “the park near me is full of people who intentionally live on the street!” And you just end up with these intractable conversations where everyone talks past each other.

Humans are bad at nuance

[zwieback]

Exactly. To be fair, though, people working on homelessness are fully aware of the complexity, it's just everyday conversations that are not nuanced at all.