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Not only that, but giving them homes is going to be one first and essential step in ending the relentless mental pressure and misery that keeps them on drugs in the first place.
Hating to see needles on the street, or people shitting on the sidewalk, should be coupled with absolute passionate full throated support for UBI and "housing first." If you hate both of them then you make no sense.
The kind of people who are chronically homeless might as well be commited as they're more often than not mentally ill, or need massive counciling to bring them back into society.
What for all the PTSD they might have for being despised by society. Mental healthcare should also be a right, but we can start with food and shelter.