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Excellent video! I am a New York City Community Health RN working in a homeless shelter and in supportive housing residences that provide social services. We also have a "Housing First" approach, but share the challenges of California with insufficient housing and resources. Sometimes the city will renovate old hotels, which works well. NYC is generally politically progressive, so ideology is not a major barrier for our program. Homeless people often struggle with a constellation of several problems that may include addiction, cognitive limitations, incarceration, trauma/PTSD, mental illness, social isolation, medical problems, learning disabilities, etc. These issues make it way too difficult for many people to lead an organized life in a complex society. The Housing First approach DOES save a lot of money, for the reasons you state. It also provides a comfortable & safe life for people, who sometimes move on to employment and successful independence. Thank you for your video!
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Hong Kong is very easy. Personally I can't believe ppl compare us to SG, we are so so SO much worse than SG.
we are home to the richest men in Asia but also a near 20% poverty rate at the same time. Civil servants earn in one month what the poorest earn in a year. All photos of Hong Kong/Victoria Harbour you see are taken from the skyscraper-filled business disctrict. Cross the harbour and go past the harbourside tourist area and you will find the poorest and most densely populated area in Hong Kong (upper west part of kowloon), it's like a completely different city.
We also have the most expensive housing in the world (19 times the median income, second place is Sydney at a distant 12 times). A 400 sq.ft flat can run you upwards of 1 million USD in some places.
Speaking of housing a good chunk of the poor live in unsanitary and tiny but still overpriced 50-100 sqft subdivided flats (basically a normal flat but each individual room e.g. bedroom each becomes a separate flat), yet the government doesn't do anything about it and keeps letting rich investors fuck up the housing market because yummy yummy land tax (gov's main source of income and the reason why other taxes are extremely low here). Yes we might have public housing but waiting times average out at like nearly a decade. less than half the land here is flatland/suitable for development and government is still trying to reclaim more land and building more apartments when there's plenty of empty ones (enough for the poor and homeless probably) bought up by investors or just gathering dust for being too expensive.
Oh, then there's the obvious. Natural security law passed in 2020 after the protests. entire opposition party arrested and parliament is just corrupt tycoons and pro-china bootlickers, publicly criticising the government or China can land you a prison sentence, implementing propaganda and revisionism in the education system, all but 2-3 independent news organizations that don't blindly repeat gov talking points have been shut down and their people arrested, trade unions have also been affected and dismantled (wow very "communist" and pro-worker of you, China), etc etc.
More than 100,000 people have already emigrated since 2020 thanks to this stupid law.
Dom you can thank me for doing any future video on HK for you 😘
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