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by consensus1 10 days ago
I think you have made up a strawman here. Nobody actually thinks people just decide one day "I want to be homeless." The conservative position is they are homeless due to their own bad choices, which is absolutely true in a lot of cases. Their error comes from assuming that they can just reverse the situation by not making those bad choices anymore, but in reality it can be a one way door.

If you want dumb conservative positions on homelessness I would suggest "just lock them all up", "just make them get jobs", "just get them out of MY neighborhood."