Simply throwing money at the problem hasn't worked thus far.
A while ago, I talked about my horrific thought experiment: in every city with a homeless problem, you go in with machine guns and flamethrowers, you burn or shoot every homeless person that you can, and you scour and scourge your city until not a single homeless person is left. Mass graves, piles of corpses, smoking lots that were once tent cities... you get the idea. Problem now solved, right? Nope. Even after we do something that Hitleresque, I guarantee that, in six months, you'll have a thriving homeless population again. Why? Because no one looked at root causes. What's producing all these homeless people? Sure, sure—it's not just one thing. A family's bread-earner suddenly loses his job. A formerly stable guy becomes mentally ill. Someone develops an addiction to drugs. And the state puts out inadequate solutions that fail to address these problems well. Meanwhile, the "market"—sacred cow of the conservatives—can't be bothered to find market-driven solutions to the problem. So—what to do? A yearly culling? Make homelessness a capital offense? Something more benign?
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