This has been a thing in the US for a while unfortunately. We acknowledge that food, shelter, clean water, and reasonable healthcare are basic human rights for prisoners, but when it comes to regular poor people? Suddenly we're a nanny state and they're abusing the system by... being alive, I guess.
Not even for prisoners, when you look at Texas inmates suffering and sometimes dying from unprecedented heat with no air conditioning.
The biggest influence the “nanny” state has on housing in the US is that it artificially constrains supply with zoning that is far too strict.
Holy fuck that's sad. We live in a dystopia.
prison vs almost certain homelessness?
Sophie's choice right there.
You know the rules: do the crime, do the time. So get criming.
so can someone fill me in? what happened in canada? influx of people and not enough homes built to keep up? homes are empty and being hoarded by capitalists? what?
In Vancouver they had a lot of vacant houses that were investments or air-bnb's; however bad the issues are in Canada, in the US we won't even offer end-of-life support.
How bad is life in Canada's prison? How long before we see a wave of nonlethal crime commited with the explicit purpose of getting jailed?
When they get out of prison they should look up some corporate landlords. Two birds with one stone.
Just need Soylent Housing now.
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