Much of this has been brought about by the influx of immigrants being higher than the rate houses built as well as the large failies growing up requiring housing at a higher rate than we are building homes and our horrific family violence issues that keep increasing across all demographics . And the topic of the decline in sentencing as the severity and length of prison sentences over the past 65 -80 years. In the past many of these serious violent offenders would've spent decades or life in prison and if they did get out it would be straight to a resthome. Over the past 6 years there are basically no deterents , few sentences and even the most horrific offenders are sent out after a short time to keep reoffending and going in and out like a revolving door or worse, sent home to relax on a bracelet so with all of these things compared to 50 years ago if you got in a bar fight you'd be locked up at least 3 years. Now even pedophiles are out in 18 months or 3-6 months.
All requiring more and mire housing. And 99% of rapists walk free so there's no removal of these people. If we sent all the violent offenders back to prison, Cut down immigration for a while to sort housing and infrastructure, there'd be room for everyone . Agree/disagree but it would take the bulk of homelessness away and would drastically reduce crime. It worked before. Time to do it again. Imagine going back to one murder per 12 -24 months! We could achieve that again.
These measures could go a long way toward relieving the crisis.
Much of this has been brought about by the influx of immigrants being higher than the rate houses built as well as the large failies growing up requiring housing at a higher rate than we are building homes and our horrific family violence issues that keep increasing across all demographics . And the topic of the decline in sentencing as the severity and length of prison sentences over the past 65 -80 years. In the past many of these serious violent offenders would've spent decades or life in prison and if they did get out it would be straight to a resthome. Over the past 6 years there are basically no deterents , few sentences and even the most horrific offenders are sent out after a short time to keep reoffending and going in and out like a revolving door or worse, sent home to relax on a bracelet so with all of these things compared to 50 years ago if you got in a bar fight you'd be locked up at least 3 years. Now even pedophiles are out in 18 months or 3-6 months.
All requiring more and mire housing. And 99% of rapists walk free so there's no removal of these people. If we sent all the violent offenders back to prison, Cut down immigration for a while to sort housing and infrastructure, there'd be room for everyone . Agree/disagree but it would take the bulk of homelessness away and would drastically reduce crime. It worked before. Time to do it again. Imagine going back to one murder per 12 -24 months! We could achieve that again.
These measures could go a long way toward relieving the crisis.
You may like to read The Corners by Nadia Bolz-Webber on Substack. Her latest piece, Humans are Inconveniently Complex.