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I don't want to pay for other peoples' healthcare so I'd rather pay a lot more for an oppressive police force that also takes away my civil rights.

That's why the bathrooms will show ads 24/7 and the drug safe zones will feature loot drop microtransactions. All participating companies will receive carbon credits. Time to capitalize socialism.

"Increase social service programs so that we address the reason why they're homeless and doing drugs in the first place."

If conservatives were really about ending homelessness and getting them paying taxes instead of 'just' consuming benefits, then they'd be in on this plan of phased rehab and rehousing to accomplish that. It's an investment they don't seem to see and I worry they look down on addict as trash not victims, and merely want the homeless* to silently vanish.

*I know it's not the latest popular word that privileged people use to feel better. Homeless apparently aren't offended as long as people are talking about the situation and investing time in their future, because stick and stones.

We do that in Finland and there's still homeless people and drug users in the public bathrooms. It sucks, the drug users particularly can be really threatening towards women especially who want to use those bathrooms they've taken over.

Drug use rooms would be a good idea.

You forgot to add "in city centers". Nobody wants free housing where it's already cheap.

Let's consider a tax on vacant homes. If landlords got charged market rent for vacancies the house prices would plummet.

Grace to second homeowners or set-length renovations.

It's actually social services. You gotta treat the reason they're homeless in the first place.

No but see they need to be punished so they still exist as an example to motivate workers and create an internal other to justify police.

Not to help them. Why would we help them? Stop trolling.

Republicans / religious always treat women like shit. I have no idea why any woman votes R or goes to church. These people literarily think you're less than them.

That sounds like something Heinlein would write during his earlier days. I completely agree with both the argument and reasoning, even tho he turned anti-Communist and insane before he wrote that.

That is one option, yes.

But safe injection sites are a good idea even when you're housed.

Not sure if it is that easy to just built housing for everybody (excluding those 2 people in the entirety of NL who choose to be fully homeless). At least speaking from a NL point of view. If you have no income and you don't have assets you get money and the ability to rent something. It isn't a lot of money, but it should be enough to survive. This is sayiong that if you are actually Dutch and not somebody who came from another country without going through the system to get either asylum or become Dutch.

However, it is really hard to find housing for people in general. Even harder if you earn just enough to not have any rights for social security.

I believe the people who want to do drugs here in NL have the ability to do so in coffee shops (the drug serving once)

Nah nah, that’s not cruel or honest enough. “Why should we save them? They deserve to overdose for being an addict! Has anybody seen my coffee order?”

... with a panic button and much greater access to addiction resources.

If there are 10 steps to turning a homeless person into a housed, working taxpayer, this is like step 2.

Canada has failed to move to step 3 because "just arrest those leeches" is the position of half our society.