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Current laws surrounding homelessness heavily revolve around keeping cities clean or maintaining aesthetics, rather than actually helping people. Firstly, how can these policies be changed so that instead of prioritizing the desires of the housed citizens, they instead prioritize the humanity and needs of the unhoused? What would happen if we focused more on fixing the larger underlying systemic issues surrounding housing or low wages instead of stigmatizing the issue and blaming the individuals who find themselves at the short end of the stick?

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What is the leading cause of homelessness?

-Sasha

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How do stereotypes affect homeless people? -Taj

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Why cant people with power or money come up with ideas or put aside money to help the homeless because of the problem not being solved for such a long time and there still being problems with it

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Mika Mazin

“The companies that make up these industries must be more responsive to the needs of the people”

How do we create a government that can wisely adapt to the people and their needs? How can a slow and human government compete with the ever changing nature of a free market and inherit personal interests and selfishness? How do we incentivise company's to support the people who need it most? (IE building affordable housing)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-oItV0lfTNWdUpHRmMxMUNmekxyMndiRjdMSVVSemstWWZN/view?resourcekey=0-YcHI2j78h7pFwwXvDJjjYA

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In Sandal's "The Greatest Happiness Principle", he discusses the trolley problem, stating, "Given the dire circumstances, it was necessary to kill one person in order to save three." While utilitarianism presents itself as functional morality, it does not always produce the best possible solution, as not everyone is meant to benefit. In what ways does the exercise of utilitarian principles fail our society, particularly relating to the homelessness crisis?

-Jared

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Should cities create policies that prevents eviction's and provide long term support services to reduce homelessness more effectively? - Stephen

https://housingnothandcuffs.org/policy-solutions/

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“He recognized two competing values: the common good, and the individual ownership of property…A true respect for the common good suggests that the material things necessary for a good life should be widely available for use” (Rights and Responsibilities). Balancing personal property and the need of the common good can be a super tough balancing act. But, how can we as individuals balance our desire for personal property and the common good without something such as government intervention or regulation?

-Tucker

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do programs like the safe use sights or where they give people steril needles actually help people or is it just enabling and causing the problem to grow?

-kaiden

source is the abc news segment about san francisco

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In our reading about Utilitarianism, the author writes, “consequences are not all we should care about, morally speaking; certain duties and rights should command our respect”. In our current political climate, duties and rights of the government are being contested. Is homelessness a political issue (democrat or republican) or is it a morality question? And if it's a morality question what does that say about both parties?

-- Grace

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Is harm reduction, including syringe exchange programs, supervised consumption sites, and medication-assisted treatment, a beneficial public health strategy or does it risk enabling continued substance use?. Source: ABC News segment about San Francisco. -Wade

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How does the criminalization of homelessness, such as anti-camping laws and police sweeps, reflect broader societal values, and what are the long-term consequences of this? - Minerva

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How do you think people in areas with little to none or no homeless at all, view homeless people? How does it influence their view of the problem?

-Jayson

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"Morality means something more–something to do with the proper way for human being to treat one another” (Sandel, Utilitarianism) - how can we determine what is the proper way to treat one another? How can we overcome our different perspectives to accept one universal standard for how is the correct way to treat others? - Carly

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“To ignore the needs of our less-fortunate: neighbors, whether out of selfish motives or mere neglect, is to frustrate the very purpose of God in creating the material world we share. The Creator intends the common gift of the earth to be used for the nourishment and sustenance of all.” - Rights and responsibilities

In the United States, where Americans value equality, why does the government allow issues such as homelessness to get so out of hand?

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What are the main causes of homelessness and how can governments and communities work together to solve the problem?

Hugo Maniatis