[southerntofu]

At least here in France, the "housing" they offer is just a mattress in a huge room with no intimacy and dangerous people around. Most homeless people are skeptical at first, but after getting robbed/assaulted they certainly will refuse temporary housing for the rest of their life.

If the authorities really cared about the homeless, they would requisition empty dwellings and assign them individually so people have a proper home to rebuild their life.

[hollerith]

Why would you want the authorities to requisition dwellings when they could buy them instead?

What is it about this issue that makes so many people wish to treat landlords harshly?

[kerkeslager]

> What is it about this issue that makes so many people wish to treat landlords harshly?

Because landlords are buying up the resources other people need to live and price gouging them.

[diggan]

> What is it about this issue that makes so many people wish to treat landlords harshly?

Compassion.

They see someone without a roof over their head, while at the same time seeing agencies/owners owning multiple properties just to enrich themselves.

It's not hard to understand why people are more compassionate towards the people with nothing, compared to how they see the people with a lot.