Kanadier wachsen pessimistisch, wenn es darum geht, Obdachlosigkeit auszurotten
Kanadier wachsen pessimistisch, wenn es darum geht, Obdachlosigkeit auszurotten
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In the last century we:
-began by thinking poverty was morally justified and inevitable
-realized that poverty is structural not moral in the 30’s
-built a welfare system in response to that realization, which lifted huge segments of the population into comfortable upward mobility
-forgot about the reasons for the welfare state and let rich people convince us it was too expensive in the 70s and 80s
-tore much of the welfare state up at the end of the 20th century
-and now we’re back to thinking poverty is moral and inevitable
No country in the world nor civilization in history has managed to do that, so yeah, I think we should be pessimistic about our odds to accomplish it.
The 2 in 5 Canadians who understand homelessness will always be with us are the only segment of the population living in the real world.
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We too busy with our nonsense „nation building“ projects to be concerned with silly trifles like housing our citizens
I think we have a moral responsibility to try, but I don’t know how to compassionately respond to the depths of the drug crisis. Living in downtown Hamilton, it’s common to see people who seem to be completely lost to their addictions on top of being unhoused. I don’t know how someone in those circumstances can bounce back.
Homeless Canadians are just too low of a priority at this point.
Canada would rather (example) Give billions of aid to a corrupt nation on the other side of the world to support a fight with another corrupt nation.
Canada would rather spend BILLIONS on refugees so they can have hotel rooms and amusement park opportunities.
Canadians would rather give their money to gambling apps on their phone…..
In short, the money is there, the care is not, not until homeless people start camping in the affluent upperclass urban Liberal neighborhoods.
This sort of pessimism is what happens when we have performative self styled “progressive” politicians that say that they are doing something to end homelessness, but in practice, do not actually do anything remarkable.
And so the public assuming that action was taken, incorrectly believes that something was happening, but that it was ineffective.
The reality is that it was just a sham and nothing was actually done in the first place.
A recent example is in BC where our new housing minister, while mayor, said he would end homelessness, and talked up all the things he was going, on occasion doing a big ribbon cutting for some new housing, but in reality the net amount of homes rentable at shelter rates declined while we was mayor as new projects could not compensate for the destruction of affordable housing stemming from his other policies.
Well if pessimistic, nothing is stopping anyone from contacting their provincial MP or protesting outside their provincial legislature.
Homeless is controlled provincially.
Easy stop building stupid bicycle lanes. Put the money helping people building community and services. Canada is almost the most Nordic country. It doesn’t make any sense to put all that money on shit that serves so few people.