I was in Psych a few times after traumatic brain injury.
Homeless people came and went the few weeks I was there.
They made between 100 and 200 a day in Manhattan..
The most I ever heard of one person spending was a woman who took a homeless guy to a clothing store and spent about 400 bucks on him.
My first reaction was to call her a liberal idiot and a sucker.
But it was her money to do what she wanted with and there’s worse ways to spend it.
I’d say half the homeless i met were mentally ill and half were in there because of addictions.
Sounds about right.
The current homeless “epidemic” has two primary causes:
1. The ACLU sued the states to force them to allow the mentally ill who had been institutionalized to sign themselves out. Nearly all did so at Byberry (outside Philadelphia). Within the week, two who had signed themselves out and walked straight into the Delaware River and drowned. Within months, Philadelphia was overrun.
2. Many “homeless” are actually trust-fund children from very wealth, liberal parents. They choose to live on the streets as a form of Kerouac experience. Cities such as Portland and Seattle are overrun with these brats, and that’s exactly what they are. I lived in Seattle for nearly ten years and was forced to endure these disgusting brats with perfect teeth from braces and expensive orthodontists.
Tent City in Seattle is a manufactured, Marxist reaction to this epidemic. They shuffle these “homeless” around from neighborhood to neighborhood every six months are so. Many are sex offenders, because they know if they register as “homeless” (which they can do if they stay in a Tent City) they don’t need to register an address and don’t need to inform the people around them. Some are lazy bums. Some suffer from brain damage. Many, many of them are simply Marxist activists and this is one way they attack property rights and try to subvert nice middle-class neighborhoods.