r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Garey_Coleman • 8d ago

Where are the homeless supposed to go?

Cities have been cracking down on homeless people so they can’t have encampments or stay on sidewalks. At the same time usually the shelters are full. So those who are unable to get into a shelter, where are they supposed to go?

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u/MolemanEnLaManana 8d ago

No one wants to say it aloud (because it’s a vile and appalling outcome) but the logical conclusion here is putting homeless people in prisons and other institutions against their will. If you criminalize homelessness more and more, and you don’t create more spaces where the homeless can freely live, that’s what you’re building toward.

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u/JohnHazardWandering 8d ago

So pay for 24 hour care?? or just pay half that in social services and housing for them to be on their own. 

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u/KittensInc 8d ago

Assuming a US context: you forgot about the Thirteenth Amendment:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

Why pay for their care if you can force them to work?

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u/JohnHazardWandering 8d ago

Still a net loss 

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u/fazelenin02 8d ago

For us, not for the private prisons who pay our congress to write draconian laws that put people in prison.

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u/YinuS_WinneR 8d ago

He is saying it as in private prisons require subsidies as slaves arent productive enough to be profitable.

But you are right. Prisons get subsidies to become profitable, they use a part of their profits to bribe politicians into subsidizing them more while these subsidies are paid by the taxpayer.

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u/HughHimbo33 8d ago

there are basically no federal prisons that are privately run. its a state by state issue, and the public prisons push for more incarceration because they cannot reduce staffing because of union contracts.