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Does free housing help people? The state of “the projects” in every metro would say otherwise.

Does free food help people? Most Americans are already overweight, and far, far more die every year from diseases of excess consumption than hunger/malnutrition. Furthermore, when you give them food stamps, they try to sell and defraud the program to buy drugs or alcohol.

We already “help” these people to the tune of many billions of dollars a year - let’s ask they make some cultural changes before we dive even deeper into debt as a nation.

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>Does free housing help people?

Studies say yes.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8513528/

Your vibes and general lack of empathy don't make you correct.


That disabled non-producers go to the ER less if given an apartment is true doesn't make it empathetic or correct to build enormous unproductive spending networks under the label of homelessness, either.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-homeles...

$50,000 a year per homeless with minimal, if any, result - if it's empathy, it's suicidal empathy to emit those kinds of funds without results year after year into systems that have sprung up to capture them and ask for more.


Have you ever met anyone who's disabled and living off of SSI? We should be doing more to help them.



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