• Peck@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I don’t want to see them because they are dangerous. Reasons don’t matter. I’ve been harassed and my wife was attacked by homeless people in Portland. She has pretty severe PTSD right now because of that.

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      4 days ago

      Everyone is dangerous.

      Kind of shitty to oppose systemic changes that would help them and reduce danger

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        4 days ago

        No housed person has harassed or attacked me since middle school.

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          Housed persons are peaceful. Unhoused persons are dangerous.

          Literally if public housing was dispersed equally and equitably across a given city or area, as time goes by, unhoused people would housed people nearby anyone. They become peaceful by your logic.

          The government might be able to do this using eminent domain, but people like you would oppose it in your neighborhood.

          Everyone has to be onboard with this so the load on everyone becomes proportional and not disproportional.

          And this is where American individualism gets in the way. People don’t value community, and so politicians would be hard pressed to get this done while being shunned from office come time for the next election.

          How do you break down American individualism? By removing barriers between housed and unhoused people, doing outreach, having conversations, and lending a helping hand in redevelopment.

          Sounds like you’re allergic to all of those though

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            People like me? You know nothing about me. Like for starters that I already live in the neighborhood with high number of public housing units. I have nothing against them whatsoever. I encourage them to build more. Yeah like having outreach and all that other bullshit solved the issue. Did you catch that I live in Portland? I see with my own eyes that these policy are not working even though bleeding hearts keep on talking about them like they are Jesuses incarnate.