Comments by "Ficus-lovin\x27 Capybara N\x27 pals • 🌟 • 25 yrs ago" (@YourCapybaraAmigo_17yrsago) on "Chicago's Radical Solution to End Homelessness" video.

Corporate landlordship should be hugely aggressively controlled and limited in this country in every way. To do otherwise only brings us to where we are now.
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@Dirkxs well that plus more private sector control in my opinion but yes. 100%
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@Joce123 holy cow why are you stanning for landlords? Are you one? There's a difference between expecting LLs to operate at a loss and controlling the excessive profiteering. Are you a LL? I'm not saying it has to be either or. Everyone has the right to afford a roof, a most basic human need, and private providers have a right to make a reasonable profit. But where do we draw the line between reasonable profit and extreme profit? How do you expect to end homelessness if 60% of people cannot afford the current rates being demanded? Local authorities could just leave the tent cities alone after all they're not doing anything good by just treating them like animals, that shouldn't be allowed either. That's completely unethical. So either we commit to housing everybody who wants a permanent address or we commit to accepting the fact that tent cities are the new normal. You know, like under the Depression. Which would you prefer? And what is your plan?
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@Joce123 and your attitude is a big part of the problem thinking all they want to do is be on drugs. You have no idea what some of these people have been through. Just one of incident of what some of these people have experienced would probably drive a lot of us to seek out drugs to numb our feelings. Any one of us could end up in that situation if enough things go wrong in our life. You have no compassion and therefore no solutions and no right to be part of this discussion. Contrary to popular and ignorant belief, the majority of people experience homelessness on or off the street are not addicts. looking down on them as animals who only want drugs is a convenient way to excuse you from having to understand how easy it is for anyone to become homeless and excuses you from caring and seeing them as human beings. For the record, we all deserve a free social services. Just another brainwashed brainlet out there sucking up typical MSM agenda. Every homeless person was once upon a time someone's daughter, father, husband, best friend or mother. They deserve our compassion and our help. It really could easily be any one of us if just one thing went wrong. I hope you're rich beyond belief because your tone deafness on this issue is cute.
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@Joce123 I don't mind dollar stores per se, but there's no reason why local city councils can't limit corporate stores in their community, thus protecting their community and local businesses. They don't have to greenlight every single corporate application.
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@Joce123 your attitude is a big part of the problem thinking all they want to do is be on drugs. You have no idea what some of these people have been through. Just one of incident of what some of these people have experienced would probably drive a lot of us to seek out drugs to numb our feelings. Any one of us could end up in that situation if enough things go wrong in our life. You have no compassion and therefore no solutions and no right to be part of this discussion. Contrary to popular and ignorant belief, the majority of people experience homelessness on or off the street are not addicts. looking down on them as animals who only want drugs is a convenient way to excuse you from having to understand how easy it is for anyone to become homeless and excuses you from caring and seeing them as human beings. For the record, we all deserve a free social services. Just another brainwashed brainlet out there sucking up typical MSM agenda. Every homeless person was once upon a time someone's daughter, father, husband, best friend or mother. They deserve our compassion and our help. It really could easily be any one of us if just one thing went wrong. I hope you're rich beyond belief because your tone deafness on this issue is cute. And even if they do want to be on drugs, how does that affect me? Or you? That should be their right. They should be allowed to live in a tent if that's what they want, unmolested by local city gestapo, as long as they're minding their own business. There's literally nothing inherently wrong with wanting to live outside the mainstream, it's a right we all should have! But the vast majority of people on the street do not want to continue in that way, they want a more normalized existence and permanent housing and they should receive it. If local city authorities really wanted to help the homeless as they claim they would but all they really want them to do is go away and die quietly. There is no humanity in any politician in this country not locally or on Capitol Hill or anywhere in between. If I ever saw it I think I would die of shock because I haven't seen it yet. I will certainly acknowledge it if I do, and I'm eagerly awaiting that day..... Still waiting.
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@Joce123 typical. YouTube isn't letting me respond to you on the homeless matter.
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State and local authorities always have three choices regarding this issue. Help those in need get rehoused by making the necessary resources available, including mental health supports and drug treatment if necessary; do nothing and ignore the problem (a perennial favorite), or allow and perpetrate abuse and discrimination of these innocent people by passing abusive local dehumanizing bylaws and encouraging disgusting police violence and/or harassment. Hmmm, three guesses which one every single central municipality that I've ever known has chosen? Obviously ONLY (A) should be seen as the morally acceptable solution in this so-called enlightened first-world country we all like to pretend we're a part of. I mean when you think of what large cities finance it is beyond shameful that they do so little for their local homeless and poor. The resources are ALWAYS there, it's just how they will be appropriated. But that's all by design, friends. Make no mistake people, poverty in America is ALL BY DESIGN. ITS VERY MUCH INTENTIONAL. IT IS PLANNED AND ENFORCED DAILY VIA MANY MEANS. I think we all know that the political structure works for the top 1-5% in this country with everyone else being aggressively left to sink or swim on their own on a highly unlevel playing field. Where the political will is, so also are the solutions. Simple as. When a politician wants something done and they have the votes, it gets done- good, bad or otherwise. So isn't it curious that this issue just continues year after year, everywhere, never getting better? Gee I wonder why that is?? Given all that, isn't it interesting that this measure is going on the public ballot? It's just like Prop 1 here in CA about making billions available to help homeless veterans. Now who could oppose that? Of course no one with a decent heart would so that leads me to my next question, WHY then are these measures on the ballot in the first place?? I mean isn't that curious? Something that is so self-evidently humane and life-affirming and necessary, where there can be no debate amongst decent people; where's the need for it to go on the ballot? Why take the chance of it not passing? Why allow deep pocketed issues to even know about it and to oppose it publicly? Now isn't that interesting?? Could it BE... that our elected leaders are so cold-hearted and corrupt that they don't WANT these bills to pass and they're hoping that enough reactionary people will defeat them in a public vote, thus relieving them of the burden of looking like the villain if they vote against it in council chambers? NO! THESE guys?! I mean I don't think that's too paranoid to think that that's how these people are. It's how they always are are. MAKE NO MISTAKE- THE HYPER CORRUPT POLITICAL SLIME IN THIS COUNTRY IS THE REASON WE HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IN THE FIRST PLACE. (We would never have gotten to here if we'd had even a tiniest shred of more humane public management over the decades.) ANYHOW YES I HOPE IT PASSES OF COURSE BUT IT'S A SHAME THAT THE PUBLIC HAS TO ACTUALLY WEIGH IN ON A MEASURE LIKE THIS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE LOCAL LEGISLATION SHOULD ALREADY HAVE VOTED ON BY NOW AND HAVE BEEN WELL PAST THE EARLIEST STAGES OF IMPLEMENTATION. Lastly, just a word, ALWAYS know who your friends are and who your enemies are when it comes to these issues. Here's a hint, our friends are NEVER in elected office in this country. Maybe one day, but not today. (And please don't think red or blue makes a difference; they are identical behind the scenes; everything they do that indicates otherwise is strictly for public performance. They are ALL OWNED by the big $$$.)
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