QUEBEC – As Quebec faces a worsening homelessness crisis, some politicians, including Quebec City Mayor Bruno Marchand, have suggested the solution may be a Finnish model that aims to give every...
It doesn’t matter what your political leaning … giving people a home just makes good economic sense when you think about it.
Be a conservative and don’t give people and a home and you’ll end up spending public money on more policing, security, prisons, legal systems, judiciary, health care (especially emergency health care), and bureaucracy / government services all dedicated to managing the homeless … and all that extra spending will be spent by the public and by private companies and individuals as the crime rate increases.
Be a liberal or socially minded politically and give people a home and the money will be spend on housing people which will lead to less crime rates and less of a need for policing, security and dealing with people in desperate situations. It won’t cause an automatically utopia, there will still be a percentage of individuals who will fall into crime and terrible situations, the difference will be that there will be fewer of them and fewer of them will be easier for existing policing / judicial / health services to manage.
No matter how you cut it … be right wing or left wing … money will always be spent on those less fortunate.
Do we want to spend money on them now and prevent them from falling further down into desperate situations … or do we want to spend money later dealing with hordes of desperate people with nothing to lose.
Economically, prevention is always cheaper in the long run than in dealing with the problems you ignored because you thought you were saving money by not doing anything.
It doesn’t matter what your political leaning … giving people a home just makes good economic sense when you think about it.
Be a conservative and don’t give people and a home and you’ll end up spending public money on more policing, security, prisons, legal systems, judiciary, health care (especially emergency health care), and bureaucracy / government services all dedicated to managing the homeless … and all that extra spending will be spent by the public and by private companies and individuals as the crime rate increases.
Be a liberal or socially minded politically and give people a home and the money will be spend on housing people which will lead to less crime rates and less of a need for policing, security and dealing with people in desperate situations. It won’t cause an automatically utopia, there will still be a percentage of individuals who will fall into crime and terrible situations, the difference will be that there will be fewer of them and fewer of them will be easier for existing policing / judicial / health services to manage.
No matter how you cut it … be right wing or left wing … money will always be spent on those less fortunate.
Do we want to spend money on them now and prevent them from falling further down into desperate situations … or do we want to spend money later dealing with hordes of desperate people with nothing to lose.
Economically, prevention is always cheaper in the long run than in dealing with the problems you ignored because you thought you were saving money by not doing anything.
I think people across the spectrum would a be a lot more comfortable with public spending when people like this are held accountable.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/forensic-audit-finds-former-b-c-housing-ceo-directed-funds-to-spouse-s-non-profit-1.6835992
It isn’t about the spending with the conservatives. Someone needs to suffer. It’s a sadistic ideology.