Maybe I’m just ignorant, but my assumption has always been that there are many programs in place to help the homeless but most of them choose to remain that way in order to save whatever they get for drugs and/or alcohol.
I’m sure there are also many who fell on hard times and have no family to help.
We’re not hearing much about the homeless lately.
If a Republican gets in office that will change for sure.
You’re so right.
When the Republicans were in office, homelessness was a huge crisis and all the Republicans’ fault. Now that the libs are in office, hardly a peep in the media.
I’m not an expert, but I know that a lot of them are willfully homeless. Some of them, when they get a spot in a shelter, break the rules and get themselves kicked out. Sometimes it is as simple as not making curfew. The inability to follow the rules is the same reason that so many of them are unemployed. I have friends who have tried to help them get jobs and they have absolutely no clue about either getting a job or holding one.
Even when they get a job, it doesn’t last. The idea of showing up on time or showing up for more than one day in a row seems impossible for them to grasp. Don’t even think about actually accomplishing any work.
These people need major intervention if they are going to change. Society should decide if they want to invest in that intervention, if they want to imprison them, put them into mental wards, give them space to live as they choose, or some other path. There seems to be no coherent or realistic plan.