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@AnthonyJK @timo21 @scottsantens 🎯 also because they're an effective cover for government sponsored upwards wealth transfer. E.g. in the name of "solving homelessness" governments can spend a lot of money on ineffective private contractors to build, lease, and administer shelters. They can allow valuable zoning loopholes in the name of providing privately owned "affordable" housing. And so on.

If they just announced they were handing over money and entitlements to their cronies there'd be scrutiny and resistance, but visible homelessness is horrifying to enough people that they don't look deeply into what's actually going on, which is mostly a grift rather than an attempt to help anyone or solve anything.