Posted on 01/18/2016 11:56:30 AM PST by Sean_Anthony
Why must we relegate the homeless, the unemployed, and the poor to ePodments, to tiny homes, to mini-homes, to dwellings made of junkyard scrap and other cheap materials, to dwellings the size of closets?
The mark of a civilized society is how well the most helpless are treated—animals, children, the elderly, and those who are homeless. There is always room for improvement. We are plenty generous with people from other countries, but we miss the mark when it comes to helping our own chronic homeless, the veterans, babies in the womb, the elderly, and others who cannot protect themselves.
It is in plain view that we have failed the homeless. We all pass by people who look healthy, able-bodied, and well-fed, asking for help on a street corner, professional panhandlers who have a nice car and a home to go to – they make a living panhandling. But then there are those sleeping in the streets, in the cold, in the rain, too dirty and too exhausted to beg; they’ve become so invisible and ignored, nobody speaks to them anymore.
1 There are plenty of walmarts that are going to be empty soon. Convert them into living accommodations.
2 In our city every time a grocery store shuts down, the local school system swoops in and coverts it to an administration annex. These might be possibilities
3 Let them help build their own residences on property that is suitably acquired and zoned , like Habitat for Humanity does.
How do you help those who won’t help themselves. Some are just content with their situation
True story.
They should all blog on Canada Free Press and earn money for hookers and crack.
yes and no.
I tried to help a woman who was sleeping (for years) on the cold streets of a dangerous big American city. Long story made short, I managed to arrange a brand-new private apartment for her in a new building, with (to the extent she wished to take advantage of it) ongoing social service assistances of various types through a respected local church charity good outfit, but again she could use or not use them as much or little as she liked). The apartment then would have rented for about $2,000 a month (closer to $5,000 nowadays), and it was completely private for her, no sharing of the space required. Result? She did not want to walk 3 blocks to even look at it. A couple years later, the daughter of city mayor was ‘appointed’ the official ‘homeless relief person’... and .... daughter picked on just this street woman....this very one...as her example of the type of folks daughter planned to find housing for, and remove from the streets. The city police were instructed to get the homeless people moved into free housing, too...
Result? Its about 15 years on .... and the homeless lady is still sleeping on the street. Her choice.
In short, the problem is far more complicated than any lack of help (public or private)
Obama is president. There are no homeless.
Three jumping the gun there is not a Republican President yet.
I don't care anymore...
I struggle to pay taxes so we can live in a decent house...
I work at a job, even though I could very easily be on SSD and collect free money...
so I repeat.....I could care less about the infinity of homeless people...my giveadamn is broken.
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
There are many reasons for homelessness. One reason being that many are dysfunctional. no initiative, no direction.
We should have something like the conservation corps were people of any age and ability are able to join to get food and shelter in exchange for service to their community.
We used to have plenty of jobs for people to pick up litter, but now we have those littering laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM
Some people make a choice to live as homeless. Isn’t “freedom of choice” what America is supposed to be about? They choose to be bums and vagrants. They don’t want help - unless to get booze and drugs. Get used to it.
“The Chronically Homeless Americans”
Yes, with “Chronically” being the key word. In other words, lazy, good-for-nothing gibmedats who live on the gov’t, ( us, ) dole from the-cradle-to-the-grave.
That’s an interesting thought. Maybe the reason we don’t see much of that is there is insufficient potential for graft.
So true. Thank you for trying to help that lady.
Statements like this are symptomatic of the Homelessness Industry. We aren't civilized unless we constantly spend more and more and more on the homeless. There is no "right" amount. The answer is always "more more more." And if you don't spend "more," you aren't civilized.
I do a Hell of a lot of work with the homeless on a weekly basis. The reality is that many of the current crop of homeless will never be helped unless you re-open both state mental institutions and involuntarily commit a large number of the homeless population to them, and also debtors' prisons to force the lazy to work and earn their keep.
That's a very long time for a homeless person to survive, IMO.
Many of the chronically homeless should have shelter in mental hospitals, whether due to mental illness or addictions so bad they cannot function in society without care.
A lot of the people living on the street need to be in mental hospitals.Some might get better with treatment but most never will.
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