The Oregon case decided Friday is the most significant to come before the high court in decades on the issue and comes as a rising number of people in the U.S. are without a permanent place to live.

    • Neato@ttrpg.network
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      4 months ago

      We have more empty homes than we do the homeless. If this country wanted a war on homelessness, it’d be over in a year. And that’s just the time it’d take to organize the moves. It isn’t even entirely correct to say this is a war on the homeless, either. It’s much broader than that and this conflict has been going on since time immemorial.

      This is the class war and we’re losing.

      • DessertStorms@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 months ago

        Well, no, they aren’t fighting homelessness at all, that would mean trying to reduce, not to mention eliminate it.

        Capitalists want homelessness, so that they have a whole under class of people to lock up and exploit, and that also serve as a warning to the rest of the working class.

        The war is definitely against the homeless, not homelessness.