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| Topic | Miami considers paying Residents to Take In Homeless People... |
| Sahuagin 10/23/21 3:07:33 PM #4: | I was just thinking of this the other day. you could provide temporary lodging in your home for people as a sort of security net. I guess the problem with "help those who need it" is always when they start to rely on it instead of just use it as needed. which is why "help those who help themselves" is a better approach. I think this (homelessness) could be a problem with too high of a minimum wage. high minimum wage basically says "lower paying jobs aren't allowed to exist" (which is true to some degree but not completely). it seems like maybe what is needed is lower-cost housing and lower-pay jobs; basically, that the minimum state of self sufficiency is lowered. (minimum wage pushes that limit up instead of down). and then, I guess that turns some areas into "slums"... but are slums better than homelessness, or are there ways from preventing low-cost housing from becoming a slum? --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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