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by 999900000999 535 days ago
To be clear, I'm not mad at the homeless.

If anything local governments should provide more for these populations, showers at libraries and pop up clinics would do wonders.

Of course the bigger issue would be housing costs going straight to the moon. Rent should be 70% of what it is.

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I can’t help but think that adding facilities like shower or laundry at libraries would just make them de facto shelters
Homeless people are going to hang out. Would you rather give them the opportunity to clean up and get some medical assistance or not ?

Ideally you'd plug them into housing assistance programs so the overall numbers of homeless go down overtime.