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/IZCannon 8d ago

They're "supposed" to either die or become prison labor until they die

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u/ethosnoctemfavuspax 8d ago

Yes- no one else has brought up that criminalizing homelessness = more prisoners = more legal slave labor

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 8d ago

Prisons are expensive, nobody actually wants homeless in prison except the for profit prisons' investors, who can extract money from the state for containing them. Civilians just want.the homeless to go to other places.

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u/Strength-InThe-Loins 8d ago

And since there are no other places, they go to prison.

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u/Ok-Chest-7932 8d ago

There are plenty of other places, the armchair middle class just don't like them.

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u/etcpt 8d ago

List a few of these "plenty".

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u/FoRiZon3 8d ago

He is already saying prisons are expensive (and overcrowded too). I think you already know what it implies.