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Originally Posted by cornholio

welfare writes a check to the landlord, there is also a max that welfare will pay for accommodations. problem is that many of the drug addicts get the landlord to pay them out part of what the landlord gets from welfare and then the addicts just live on the street and beg for more money. the landlord then rents the place to someone else and makes allot of extra money. i dont believe in free housing for the homeless. there are only two type of homeless people, drug addicts and mentally ill. they dont need housing and housing wouldn't even help their cause, they need treatment. as far as people down on their luck the current social services available are plenty enough to allow you to get back on your feet, if you dont and you become homeless then you clearly fall in to one of the two previous categories and you need treatment, not indefinite free housing. im actually pissed at the fact that their creating housing for the hard to house, these people should be in treatment or a psychiatric ward. one day they may be able to fully return to society and work and get their own place, or in the worse case scenario they are never able to function in society, in that case they remain institutionalized and not homeless or with free housing.

Okay, that's what I thought.

It is free housing.