Lol. In a depressing way.

But he’s soooo righteous to gas light others, what a champion of the homeless he is!

Nevermind questions like what is the root cause of there being so many homeless right now, why is the “solution” what it is, where is the proof that more shelters will do anything other than create more pockets of crime and violence, who stands to profit on the construction of homeless shelters, who owns the property surrounding the various sites, when did they buy it, what other things are in the mix with this “solution”?

You know, uninteresting questions.

So help him.  Take your wallet down, after hitting the ATM, and help him with your own resources in whichever way you see fit.  You are a good enough person to do that, aren’t you?

Okay now we’re getting somewhere interesting.  First, what does the word “fallacious” mean to you?

Second, what is NIMBYISM?

Third, are you arguing that voluntary action is a “fallacious” idea because problems exist?  That’s what it sounds like when you say “Look st this chronic problem and tell me we’re volunteering enough? And tell me your solution is working.”

Fourth, if in your mind the existence of a problem in any degree simultaneus to attempts to alleviate said problem is evidence that said attempts are invalid or “fallacious”, then how can you argue that government is a non-“fallacious” or valid one?  Because,  you know, goverment already does tax and spend on the homeless problem.  Yet the problem still exists and is worse than ever.

But anyway, you are the one who wants to help the homeless.  So you taking action is perfectly logical.  Your “solution” is to get other people to do it even if they don’t want to, by tax-and-spend, and use guilt and play on their emotions to go along with the racket.  How about organizing the homeless people to build their own community with the limited resources the non-profit of your choosing has?  All you are doing is evading your own responsibility and demonstrating that you really don’t want to actually help. 

Homelessness is a social problem, certainly, but it won’t go away by taxing the s**t out of working people and creating more homeless by making life unaffordable.  If you’re interested in a quality economic analysis from a 19th century American economist, check out Henry George’s “Progress and Poverty”. 

I’m about 100% sure that it’s not about “spreading crime”, but that it’s about “Rich people want to buy the land that the homeless shelter is on, and lease it to shops/restaurants because it’s close to Gateway.”

This has been my argument too on this topic (I did not spend the time to find research to back it up). What are you going to do, bus them to other cities? Won’t they walk/hitchhike back to where the resources are consolidated? Seriously, some enterprising journalist needs to chase down where the $$$ motivation comes from and no doubt it is from Downtown businesses.