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by EricRiese
797 days ago
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The question is how many fewer bedrooms would be available now if these rules had been in place years ago, and what would that do to the price of rent and the rate of homelessness. And ask a homeless person if they'd prefer to be on the streets or live in a windowless bedroom. |
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Many homeless can and do choose the streets over shelters even at severe risk of dying to exposure, for reasons often involving schizophrenia and the many hazardous inmates around.
So I’m not really keen on the argument that letting developers create anti-human structures would magically result in loads more useful structures for the homeless. That argument continues to completely ignore what the homeless need.
If I wanted elevated student suicides and mental health issues, and increased homeless deaths to cold, windowless prison cells sounds like a great candidate to try.