(01-19-2022, 09:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: Lol no.  There was very little truth to that.
The direct, proximate cause of homelessness is eviction. 
Putting homeless people in jail for being homeless is even more expensive than what we are doing now.
The one thing that Tucker sort of gets right is that when a city like LA or Seattle decides to put homeless people in free apartments, they do, counterintuitively, end up with more homeless people than they had before.  But this isn't because middle class people in LA and Seattle suddenly give up on life and decide to join the ranks of the homeless freeloaders.  It's because homeless folks in Tacoma and Riverside hear about the nice free new houses that Seattle and LA just gave away, and they decide to move their tent and wait for their turn.  The homeless are mobile.  You can't understand the problem unless you recognize that fact.
One thing he repeatedly gets wrong is the drug thing.  The police might be required to ignore homeless camps, but they are certainly not required to ignore public meth use or public intoxication.  Drug laws may be getting more liberal, but not that liberal.