On: Yemeni Coffee Shops in Texas

[999900000999 → daseiner1]

So the divorced guy who loses the house and can't get an apartment due to his ex wrecking his credit goes straight to the camps.

Come out the closet and your parents kick you out, camps.

2 weeks late on your rent, camps.

Maybe the moment you get fired your boss should just tell the State to pick you up.

Housing prices have gone up 50% in the last decade. https://better.com/content/how-much-home-prices-have-risen-s...

This is much worse in some places. Low income housing options, like SROs have largely been made illegal/un profitable.

https://www.housingfinance.com/news/minimum-wage-workers-str...

Where are poor people supposed to go ? Where is a person making minimum wage supposed to live.

>First of all, they found, for families and children, one of the largest increases in homelessness, families, a 39 percent spike in 2024 from 2023. And on that January night that they surveyed, they found 150,000 children experiencing in — homelessness.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-sees-dramatic-rise-in-...

Looks like a bigger systematic issue to me. I'm not arrogant enough to think I'm above a bad year putting me in a bad situation.

I'd rather have a society that helps people get back on their feet.

Given the 2 trillion spent on the F-35 alone, its not like it's an impossible task. https://responsiblestatecraft.org/f35-cost/#:~:text=The%20F%....

[webnrrd2k → daseiner1]

It makes me uneasy whenever someone suggests forcing an undesirable class of people to become concentrated in institutions (or, perhaps, camps). Historically it hasn't worked out so well. But maybe this time it will be different?

[999900000999 → webnrrd2k]

I'd rather just assume anyone who suggests sending large numbers of people to camps is ultimately a fascist.

Not to mention the numbers of homeless grow every year due to economic factors and such policies would disproportionately target LGBT people.

https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/resourc...