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Not only that, but giving them homes is going to be one first and essential step in ending the relentless mental pressure and misery that keeps them on drugs in the first place.
Hating to see needles on the street, or people shitting on the sidewalk, should be coupled with absolute passionate full throated support for UBI and "housing first." If you hate both of them then you make no sense.
most homeless people aren't alcoholics or drug addicts, btw...
but, yep... most of the time, you're spending all of your energy on meeting the lowest tier of maslow's hierarchy... by the time you get some of that, there's not much left in you to go and "get a job"
which, btw, most jobs very much will not be hiring homeless people, in particular...
not to mention just grooming, showering, and bathing to get that job is pretty hard to come by, in most hostile designed cities...
And that's why a "shelter" isn't enough. Heating, water and electricity should be covered as well, as long as necessary.
And internet. People don't think internet is essential because it's new, and those people have been paying no attention to how quickly the world is moving. If covid vaccines can become a human right in the span of a year (and they are), then internet can become a human right in the span of 50 years. It's a necessity to getting a job, it's a necessity to claiming unemployment, it's a human right.