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Krazy_Kirby posted...

and this income isn't for every homeless, just a select group

Which is why I said "help with that problem," not "single-handedly solve that problem and rain unicorn fairy dust across all the land while happy flowers dance on meadows if brilliant green." I would prefer a more comprehensive program that actually made a significant dent in the homeless population instead of something so narrow, but any improvement is still an improvement.

Gaawa_chan posted...

Edit: I feel like I should clarify that I would prefer a program that isn't so narrow in scope. I am, after all, a Bernie Sanders supporter. I prefer more universal programs.
However, it's worth pointing out that something of that nature might be difficult to implement on that level of government.

Not necessarily. While it's not strictly UBI, Medicine Hat in Alberta saw tremendous success with their housing-first program, which was handled at a municipal level. They were able to completely eradicate chronic homelessness while saving money in the process because policing and providing emergency medical care to the homeless is actually more expensive than just giving them homes. Now, Medicine Hat is much smaller than San Francisco and suffers considerably fewer space challenges, so obviously copy+pasting their solutions isn't necessarily going to work, but that's still an example of things being done at the municipal level to ameliorate homelessness on a universal scale (at least, universal within the municipality).

Krazy_Kirby posted...

if you didn't see over a dozen homeless people in just a few hours, you are blind

And now we've moved the goalposts from "people pooping in the street" to "homeless people exist."