this is really it

from ryan dowd:

It is easy to answer the question of what to do with “people who chose” homelessness.

There is a far harder (and far more important) question: “What do we do about people who struggle with profound mental health challenges?”

For several decades the answer has been “Ignore them and hope they go away.”

For reasons a five-year-old could figure out, that answer hasn’t worked very well.

Many countries are being forced to revisit the question.

Our answer to that question will impact everyone.

Obviously, people who are homeless will be impacted the most.

A brutal, Darwinist, everyone-for-themselves answer will erode our collective morality.

That will damage everyone.

I don’t think that is being overly dramatic.

How a community treats its most vulnerable has always been the clearest litmus test for morality.