Its kind of notoriously difficult to … poll, or count, people… who do not have permanent addresses or known working phone numbers.
They’re nomadic, essentially.
Also: No one really fucking cares to attempt that job properly.
Source is me, I used to be the data analyst guy at a major nonprof that serves the homeless.
In Trump’s term so far, roughly 80% of the funding going toward assisting the homeless has been cut.
Section 8 / SNAP now have work requirements, so functionally that means most people living in Section 8 housing will now either have to find a private sector job in the worst economy in my life time, or, basically get gangpressed into involuntary labor of some kind, essentially a kind of ‘community service +’ type system.
Instead, they’re literally building concentration camps.
President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as the most effective way to combat the crisis.
You know, like he has consistently said that he would:
Trump also said authorities should round up America’s homeless population—roughly half a million people—and incarcerate them in camps built on cheap land far from major U.S. cities. This, he argued, would hide an American embarrassment from visiting foreign leaders and motivate the homeless to stop being homeless.
(Again, that ‘roughly half a million’ figure is a dramatic undercount, more like multiply by 4 or 5)
Oh also, being homeless is just a crime now, in case you missed that:
Homelessness crackdowns have exploded since the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier for elected officials and law enforcement agencies to fine and arrest people for living outside. Since June, roughly 150 laws imposing fines or jail time have been passed, with about 45 in California alone, said Jesse Rabinowitz, campaign and communications director for the National Homelessness Law Center.
The “fun” thing about the post-military is they are pretty good about keeping stats because they ask you nearly every time you interact with them. Most veterans, especially those at risk, do interact with the VA periodically.
Granted, it does require interacting with them.
But if you do, they relentlessly ask obnoxiously invasive questions. To the point that you don’t want to interact with them unless you have to.
Their “new” thing, at least in my area, is making you confirm your contact information every single fucking time you talk to them. Even in front of a group of people you don’t know. No fucks given. Have a VA identification card? Too bad, confirm your full name, address, and telephone. Don’t want to do that for some reason? You don’t get to see a doctor, even though you waited months for the appointment. (What happened when I tried to decline confirming in a busy waiting room because it was my fourth damn time doing so that month alone)
And then at least once a year they pester you with questions about wanting to commit suicide (not that it matters, I had to wait 6 fucking months after telling them I was suicidal to get -screened- for care… good thing it passed or I’d be a statistic) how much you drink (too much because you wont provide proper mental health…???) and whether you feel at risk of homelessness, not having enough food, etc.
Are you suggesting that being put into a jail or concentration camp with abyssal living conditions and then getting forced to do slave labor might not be the best thing for mental health?
I wanted to comment that I found the misspelling amusing, but never knew they could be synonyms. That being said, not in this case: of the depths is different from
Great misery
33,000 would be the absolutely bare minimum.
Its kind of notoriously difficult to … poll, or count, people… who do not have permanent addresses or known working phone numbers.
They’re nomadic, essentially.
Also: No one really fucking cares to attempt that job properly.
Source is me, I used to be the data analyst guy at a major nonprof that serves the homeless.
In Trump’s term so far, roughly 80% of the funding going toward assisting the homeless has been cut.
Section 8 / SNAP now have work requirements, so functionally that means most people living in Section 8 housing will now either have to find a private sector job in the worst economy in my life time, or, basically get gangpressed into involuntary labor of some kind, essentially a kind of ‘community service +’ type system.
Instead, they’re literally building concentration camps.
https://www.medboundtimes.com/medbound-blog/trump-overhauls-housing-first-policy-with-mandatory-treatment-camps
You know, like he has consistently said that he would:
https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2022/07/trump-wants-concentration-camps-and-presidential-control-domestic-troops/375057/
(2022)
(Again, that ‘roughly half a million’ figure is a dramatic undercount, more like multiply by 4 or 5)
Oh also, being homeless is just a crime now, in case you missed that:
Americ is a scam that wants you to die.
The “fun” thing about the post-military is they are pretty good about keeping stats because they ask you nearly every time you interact with them. Most veterans, especially those at risk, do interact with the VA periodically.
Granted, it does require interacting with them.
But if you do, they relentlessly ask obnoxiously invasive questions. To the point that you don’t want to interact with them unless you have to.
Their “new” thing, at least in my area, is making you confirm your contact information every single fucking time you talk to them. Even in front of a group of people you don’t know. No fucks given. Have a VA identification card? Too bad, confirm your full name, address, and telephone. Don’t want to do that for some reason? You don’t get to see a doctor, even though you waited months for the appointment. (What happened when I tried to decline confirming in a busy waiting room because it was my fourth damn time doing so that month alone)
And then at least once a year they pester you with questions about wanting to commit suicide (not that it matters, I had to wait 6 fucking months after telling them I was suicidal to get -screened- for care… good thing it passed or I’d be a statistic) how much you drink (too much because you wont provide proper mental health…???) and whether you feel at risk of homelessness, not having enough food, etc.
Are you suggesting that being put into a jail or concentration camp with abyssal living conditions and then getting forced to do slave labor might not be the best thing for mental health?
TIL; abyssal can be a synonym of abysmal
I wanted to comment that I found the misspelling amusing, but never knew they could be synonyms. That being said, not in this case: of the depths is different from Great misery