Post

Hate to be this guy but a huge issue is a large part of the drug using homeless population turn down housing help because of rules not allowing them to do drugs. I’m pretty liberal but I do want to push back on the belief by many liberals that we should accommodate drug use in our parks,metros etc

There aren’t any rules not allowing me to do drugs in my house, it’s working out just fine for me

Well taxpayers don’t pay for your house. And sounds like you can handle your drugs!

And to follow up to avoid the dunking I’ve been active in Houston Tx with helping and outreach and so many will turn down help. They just want to do drugs on the sidewalk. But that actually shouldn’t be tenable. Drugs users ruin third spaces and reduce the public’s trust in public goods like busses

I mean tbh I think that kinda makes housing where drug use is allowed seem more necessary, but I can’t think of a way that would ever get funded and I think the idea of clean needle exchanges being a trade off of dirty needles for clean could help with incidences of dirty needles

I can absolutely guarantee that no human being who has been given any reason to believe they have access to better "just wants to do drugs on the sidewalk". Perhaps consider that they're already familiar with the "help" you're offering and it doesn't meet their needs and dehumanizes them?