Exactly my thoughts, the police often arrest or in some cases murder homeless people, that’s their role in capitalist society. They do everything they can (except housing them) to hide them from the rich people, keep them in poor areas by making transportation tougher to rich suburbs, making cities unwalkable, or the elephant in the room, the anti-homeless laws that lock them up for any little thing

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

You assume he's sad about the death. Maybe he's sad he has to deal with it.

[–] pensivepangolin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

This is your periodic reminder that Mao had the only right approach to dealing with landlords.

[+] Rasta_Imposta@lemmy.world -17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Open your own doors and take them in.

[–] letranger@lemmygrad.ml 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” ― Charles Darwin

[–] ComradeSalad@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“These things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten-point drop in the stock markets of some cities is a tragedy.” – Pope Francis

Malthus and his ideas have been a devastating detriment to humanity.

[–] KurtDunniehue@ttrpg.network 21 points 1 year ago

You really should look at the homelessness crisis in more detail, because it cannot be on private citizens to shoulder that burden. There simply isn't enough for individuals, even if they all miraculously organized together in this effort, to fix the issue.

It's systemic, and we need top-down action. Housing people affordably is a scale issue, and larger institutions should be the ones to gather the equity and resources at a scale that individuals simply cannot, especially in the middle of a housing crisis.

For examples of public housing that works quite well, I'd suggest you read into Greek's post World War 2 Social Housing programs, and Singapore's state controlled housing programs.

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