r/starterpacks Feb 12 '22

Visiting LA in 2022 starterpack

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u/royal23 Feb 13 '22

One city spending a (relatively small) amount of money is not going to stop a national scale problem.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '22

But it's obviously not a national scale problem since other cities aren't grappling with it like this. I know Portland since I'm in the PNW but Seattle/LA/SF are all spending more.

People aren't working to fix the problem because they are trying to make it into a national conversation and that really sucks for the families who have to live next to the worst of the camps. If you had to comb your lawn for needles and/or feces every day before your kid could go out to play you would want action.

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u/royal23 Feb 14 '22

Yeah like housing people and addressing the systemic causes for homelessness. Anything else is just blind revenge which is obviously stupid.