United Muscovite Nations wrote:Wallenburg wrote:The root cause of homelessness--the capitalist system in which your value as a person is determined by your wallet--isn't really the topic of the thread, though. The topic is the exclusion of an already heavily oppressed group from even the most meager of assistance programs. While the capitalist structures still exist, it is entirely relevant and reasonable to discuss such issues.
Our goal shouldn't be to make homelessness tolerable so we don't have to step over homeless people on our commutes, it should be to eliminate homelessness. Talking about how to fix homeless shelters is like talking about trying to fix homeopathy.
Except homeless shelters actually keep people alive. Solving homelessness does not require letting trans people freeze to death in the interim.