> What are you doing, personally, to improve any of those things (beyond just wasting time on the internet)?

Pretending it's not a problem is a good start. From the looks of this thread, that seems to be a low-hanging fruit that's already out of reach for some.

Also, resorting to ad-hominem arguments is a show of bad faith. Your random person on the street has absolutely no influence on how someone has access to a gun.

As the original commenter, I live in Toronto, Canada. It's pretty simple: homes are too expensive. One bedroom in an illegal sublet of an eighth of a house can be C$1000+/month. Why would anyone pay money to live in a de facto homeless shelter when one can be homeless for free?

If we want to fix this, we need to build more supply. The system we have now has too much regulation and permitting designed to block development, so the only stuff that gets built is single family luxury housing or extremely large multifamily apartment complexes.

Maybe they don't live in America. I have paid taxes in countries with good social safety nets for example, which helps alleviate homelessness.

well, that's a good question

I'm afraid there's nothing i can do to improve this

the only thing i can do is trying to avoid rationalizing it

there are so many things like this that I'm incapable of changing