[SSJPython]

They don't want to end homelessness because then so many activists and organizations will be out of a job. It's a perverse incentive.

The key to tackling the housing crisis is to build more housing, particularly high-density housing. And to do that, zoning laws must be deregulated and liberalized, if not outright abolished in some instances.

But of course, the activists will never agree to that because it's a market-centered reform and because they are rich NIMBYs. More housing will mean the properties they own will decrease in value. The scarce housing supply and the continued existence of the homelessness problem is great for their own wallet.

[resize2996]

Can you be more specific with the claim "They don't want to end homelessness"? Who is "They"? Are there examples to support this claim?

I think you are generalizing "activists" too much.

[donw]

Housing is only part of it.

Most people on the streets aren't capable of maintaining a house, mostly thanks to drug use, with mental illness as a smaller-but-still-significant secondary cause.

Fixing this would also put a bunch of activists out of a job, would remove a lot of cover for state-sponsored domestic terror activities, and would require harsh measures that are total non-starters.

Ergo, nothing is going to change on this front until either powerful interests want it to change, or until there is some sort of mass event that kills off a substantial fraction of the population.

[resize2996]

What do you mean by "state-sponsored domestic terror activities"?

What kind of "harsh measures" would you propose to solve the homelessness crisis?