children?! where do you live?

in sf finding a shelter for children is disgustingly difficult and, as i finally concluded, impossible on weekends

i'm sorry, but conflating the issue of a perceived disparity with 'beliefs' about social gender consensus is unhelpful and only incites issue derailing ire

programs to help the homeless are flawed, i know it first hand, but complaining about someone else's idea of a solution does the least possible to help

if you want a shelter organised under your own incentives i'd suggest starting your own

it's an asshole thing to say but look at the landscape of shelters

currently we have overcrowded, underfunded understaffed solutions:

some universal, few women only, few men only

how do we remove the gender bias?

bulk the universal with the necessary staff that administer the specific needs of the gender exclusive shelters

but the universal shelters are already overcrowded, underfunded and understaffed so to ask more of them would only aggravate the issues further

so we need more shelters, and to have more people willing to open and operate a shelter, and some people get the will to do so by focusing their attention on a specific group, in this case gender based

why is there gender bias in shelters? i'd argue because the people who are willing to put in the work choose to create an environment for the gender bias

should we regulate out the bias with legislation forbidding discrimination based on gender? in the current landscape i only see that harming the issues because then those that have the personal will to run a gender biased shelter will lose their incentive and simply do something else, limiting the number of shelters available to share in the solution

instead i think the argument should be to fund a state run universal shelter program well enough that specific interest shelters get phased out proactively