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@partialobserver.bsky.social

Yes. Homelessness is a choice that we make, as a society, every day. If it gets treated as part of the architecture of civilization, that’s only because powerful forces want you to think that way. Finally, it would cost less to house every unhoused person than it costs us to leave them homeless.

Brian Goldstone@brian-goldstone.bsky.social

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

10/10/26, 2:26 pm67 reposts170 likes

Derek Fox

@partialobserver.bsky.social

In this sense, “ending homelessness” is like “Medicare for All” - policy that sounds hopelessly unaffordable but in fact, because sleeping rough and private health insurance are such astoundingly bad ideas, would put money in our pockets that we could spend on other things like “universal daycare”.

Derek Fox

@partialobserver.bsky.social

Put “solving climate change via green energy” in the same category: Because if you think solving climate change is expensive, just wait and see how much it will cost us not to.