[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The main good it provides is a negative one, that of keeping
homelessness and starvation to a low enough level to prevent
political instability.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This of course presumes that the welfare state reduces homelessness
and starvation
In all fairness, I didn't claim that welfare does increase homelessness,
though I suspect that it does, but merely pointed out that the statement seemed to
presume--or that in any case people supporting welfare often presume--that it
decreases homelessness.
As for emprical research, I second
""William Dickens" [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
If someone knows of a study showing that homelessness is voluntary I would lo
ve to see it.
Here's a link to comprehensive study done by the Urban Institute
(careful, document is all in one page, over 500KB):
http://w
An interesting news story affirming my contention that zoning
restrictions contribute to homelessness is the push by a few northern
Virginia state lawmakers to enact a state law outlawing residents from
sleeping in any rooms of their homes other than their bedrooms. Their
reasoning
"Mark Steckbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
An interesting news story affirming my contention that zoning
restrictions contribute to homelessness is the push by a few northern
Virginia state lawmakers to enact a state law outlawing residents from
sleeping in any rooms of their h
If someone knows of a study showing that homelessness is voluntary I would love to see
it. I've never heard that claimed before for the obvious reason -- how would you ask
about it? I can't imagine that a majority of homeless would say that they would prefer
living on the street no matter what
I believe that what most of these "studies" refer to is based on revealed
preferences: Given that jobs and homes are available that these people could
choose in order to move off of the streets, the fact that they still live on
the streets demonstrates their revealed preference for ho
tal health
inspectors can only forcibly detain people if they are violent.
Many of those mentally ill and homeless are non-violent, and
rationally or irrationally, don't do more to find sturdy shelter.
There are other, quasi-voluntary precipitators of homelessness:
* Drug addiction
* Emotional tra
