[Peregrine1]

There are simple, expensive answers: highly diligent social workers focusing on homelessness outreach + massive affordable housing construction that crunches housing prices. Regulate the substances but have them available to addicts, and make sure fentanyl is out of the supply chain, and make selling drugs outside the regulated system a felony.

We’re just not willing to pay the bills.

[presentation]

Not saying you’re wrong in the context of your locale, but there are many places around the world that are not plagued with these problems and have dealt with them in very different ways.

[DataDive]

The people that are proposing the bills are not the same that pay the bills.

The same people that talk talk will pull a NIMBY.

Same with politicians, propose something bold and daring, just not in their lobbyst backyard.