Michael Shellenberger: The Root Cause of America’s Homelessness Epidemic and Why the Term ‘Homeless’ Is Misleading

“We’re virtually paying radical successful the signifier of currency welfare, housing, and different services to unrecorded successful tents connected the street, usage hard drugs, defecate publicly, and perpetrate crimes,” says Michael Shellenberger, writer of “San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities.”

In this episode, helium breaks down the basal causes down the sprawling homeless encampments recovered successful cities similar San Francisco.

Even the connection “homeless” itself is simply a propaganda word, Shellenberger says. “It suggests that the underlying occupation is deficiency of housing, costly rents, oregon poverty. And that’s not the case.”

The word “homeless” lumps unneurotic 2 groups that are radically different. But it’s irresponsible to conflate mothers escaping abusive husbands, oregon radical who are conscionable going done immoderate hard times, with radical who are mentally ill, oregon drug-addicted, oregon both, Shellenberger says.

Fundamentally, a unfortunate ideology guides however progressives woody with homelessness. And this ideology refuses to request adjacent a modicum of accountability from alleged victims, Shellenberger argues, adjacent erstwhile they’re engaging successful self-destructive behaviors that could beryllium deadly.

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