POVERTY IS A FEATURE NOT A BUG

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What is this trying to say???
- That low income housing is good but people like when homeless people suffer.
  
  Or that people living in block housing is preferable to some living in suburbs and some being homeless.
  
  We could have both you know. Suburbistan for those that like it and apartments for those who like it. And homelessness for no one.
  
  I'm for that. Hell, I would just like small tiny home communities without state government trying to restrict it. Block apartments are fine for many people (newly graduated, small families, and independent elders).
  
  That's a bad take.
- https://invisiblepeople.tv/capitalism-and-classism-increase-homelessness/
- I think it's a confused message. Not the best meme.
  But the basic idea is that homelessness is caused by people preferring houses ("urban sprawl") rather than apartment complexes.
  
  It assumes you can recognize Soviet housing block, designed to quickly house as many people as possible. It has nothing to do with a preference for houses over apartments.
  If you look through the rest of the photos in the source article, ask if living like they do is worse than homeless in a tent.
  
  It's one of the worst memes ever.
  
  It's a tankie meme, what would you expect.
  
  This makes the most sense to me so far
- It's trying to say that low income housing is the solution to homelessness.
  It's wrong, but that's the point it's trying to make.
  
  No, not really. But it's easy to read that into it.
- seems like it's trying to imply that homeless people are homeless because houses are too expensive.
  as if the guys in the bottom pic could afford a department in the top picture, but have to live in a tent because housing is expensive.
  I think what the meme does say is that OP is mentally 12.
  
  The top is meant to represent the socialist solution to homelessness. These are socialist block apartments built to ensure that everyone had housing because homelessness was a huge problem. They were functional, but because they were built to functionally address a need quickly, they weren't large or luxurious. They were built to last and the rent levels were controlled at a low rate if the people didn't outright own the place themselves.
  The bottom picture is the liberal solution to homelessness. Apartments suck, fuck the homeless, jack up the rent prices. The convenience of the few is prioritized over the needs of the many.
  Funny how someone who is mentally 12 could put this together, but you couldn't be bothered.
  
  your average homeless will sell the house in 5 microseconds for crack money or sign it away under duress.
  homeless people need safer shelters, healthcare, detoxing, therapy, coaching and resources to help them out of the downward spiral they are in.
  throwing free housing to vulnerable people suffering from addiction and mental illnesses is one of the stupidest things I have heard.
  
  It's only stupid if you don't address the root causes of the problems that you are listing. If you don't do anything to lift the people out of their desperation and end the cause of that desperation, then of course they will sell it.
  Your middle paragraph is the first part of what I'm talking about, do what is needed to help people lift themselves back up. Only a small part of that is helping with housing. The bigger problem is the second part, if you do nothing about the conditions that contributed to their downward spiral, then that first part will only be a temporary relief.
  This second comment made it much more clear that you weren't just saying, "nah, fuck them," but covering all of the nuances of what needs to change just isn't a realistic expectation for text comments online. Frankly, I have a feeling you and I agree a lot on that first part of what is needed to help people, no clue about how you feel about the second part. I appreciate you coming back with a thoughtful answer instead of trolling, because I expect trolling.
  
  It is driving me to despair that so many people just don't get this.

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