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 s
> [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
]>" 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
Another cite:
No occupancy in Fairfax
--
Author: James Markels
State: VA, Country: United States
"Be careful you don't doze off watching the ball game. Fairfax
County, Virginia may soon be passing an ordinance making it
illegal to sleep anywhere in your own house but your bedroo
Are you serious? It's orwellian!
Where could we find informations on this horrendous regulation in nascendo?
Mark Steckbeck a *crit :
>
> An interesting news story affirming my contention that zoning
> restrictions contribute to homelessness is the push by a few northern
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"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
Hmm...how many people will be hired as Schlafzimmergeheimestaatspolizei
to prevent this heinous crime of sleeping on a living room sofabed?
John
Mark Steckbeck wrote:
>
> An interesting news story affirming my contention that zoning
> restrictions contribute to homelessness is th
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 is that
""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
> At the risk of opening a whole new can of worms, I think that diagnosing
> the homeless as "mentally ill" is often tautologous. As in "You would
You've opened this can of worms before!! I think it's time to
let the little felllows enjoy their new found freedom...
-fabio
At the risk of opening a whole new can of worms, I think that diagnosing
the homeless as "mentally ill" is often tautologous. As in "You would
have to be crazy to prefer life on the streets to getting a low-wage
job." Personality psychologists have lately been emphasizing that
personality "disor
William Dickens wrote:
>3) The rise in homelessness correlated with a >large cut back in
support for low income housing,
According to William Tucker's Winter 1991 article in The Public Interest,
How Housing Regulations Cause Homelessness, "The most obviously flawed
exp
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
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 m
t, state mental 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 addictio
It seems to me that most studies show that the medical field, rather
than economics, is the source of explanation for homelessness. I have no
studies at hand, but I think it is pretty well established that well
over half of homeless people are severely mentally ill and/or drunks or
drug users
I've been reading Steven Landsburg's "Fair Play: What your child can teach
you about economics, values, and the meaning of life."
In it he writes: "[his daughter] understands too, as incredibly, many
adults do not, that the reason there are homeless people is that-- for
whatever reason-- some peo
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