> No one wants to admit this point so we keep arguing about whether we want to leave addicts to die in the street or in a crowded crack den. Neither really solves the problem.

That is correct, yet at the same time: Society as a whole refuses to give these people even the kindness of a roof over their head.

They need better care, yes. But if people won't even agree that these people shouldn't freeze to death in winter (or overheat in summer), talk of funding better care is off the table.

Christ, Fox News had one of their guys outright suggest they be euthanized. The bar for discourse on homelessness is in hell right now.

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Workaccount2 3 days ago | parent [-]

Housing (or at least shelter) is infact widely available. The problem is that you can't do drugs or drink in these places.

	▲	TimorousBestie 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		https://endhomelessness.org/state-of-homelessness/ > The homelessness response system added 60,143 shelter beds in 2024, but with over 600,000 people entering homelessness for the first time each year, this is deeply inadequate. > In 61 percent of states and territories, growth in demand outpaced growth in available beds, meaning that they had less capacity to shelter people in 2024 than in 2023.